My high school did this. They hauled me and my friends in front of one of the deans because we’d been playing chess in the lunch room, and they said that if they let us play chess, they’d have to let the other students play dominos, and when they play dominos, they gamble, and when they gamble, fights break out, and there weren’t enough security guards to handle that. So no chess. We pointed out that we were the school chess team, but they were unmoved on the topic.
It was really dumb.
We talked a bit about the possibility of having a couple of our better players play mental chess, that is, no board or pieces to look at, and just yell moves back and forth across the lunch room while the rest of us loudly gambled on the outcome, but we never actually did it.
That is really dumb.
Just punish the kids that gamble/fight. Keep making harsher punishments until it stops being an issue.
We pointed out that we were the school chess team
“Oh shit, we are hosting a gambling club at the school? SHUT IT DOWN”
We had a teacher that ran a gambling club for the teachers.
The teachers would all put into a pool at the start of the year and he would pay out the percentage at the end of the year. He had bank accounts in a few countries and would look for odds imbalances and spread the bet to gain an advantage.
He used to give us cash and send us to the TAB to put bets down on his behalf as he was banned for winning too much. Each year a new batch of students would come who were all not banned.
In return he taught us all how to count cards and play poker. Dude was a maths wiz.
He one day came into a different class and asked the teacher for everything in his wallet as he had “found one”. The other teacher gave him all the cash. Turns out he had seen something along the lines of “world all-stars” vs “Tonga” at ice hockey, with 8,000:1 odds. But they messed up and had it round the wrong way. Both teachers retired at the end of the year.
That’s gonna be a long and frustrating road of bans before they nip it in the bud. I don’t know if there are other games popular over there, but gamblers are gonna gamble, they’ll make up a game especially for it if they have to!
And horses can move sideways, which is just nonsense. I have a TV so I know. Horses go forward or, at best, galavant at The Olympics dressage events. And castles don’t move. I agree with the Taliban on this one. Chess is misleading. It is haram.
Not to mention the queen is the most powerful piece on the board, I mean WTF!? Obviously we can’t allow a woman to have that much power in a 100% male dominated society!
Holy shit this might actually be the reason.
Insanity
That’s not the reason.
Exactly.
Whatever reason, insanity is almost definitely behind it.
I think the piece is named differently over that way.
I guess all that’s left there is…
A N A R C H Y C H E S S
Someone did an en passant on their leader and he’s throwing a fit.
Good. Gambling and gamblers lead to nothing but trouble.
Cause this will certainly end all gambling.
Yeah. Why have laws against murder or theft?
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This has nothing to do with criticizing rules against gambling. Nobody is making a fuss about that.
Chess achieved popularity first in Persia and spread quickly to the Arab world in the 15th century. So chess started in the Muslim world, and Afghanistan was probably one of the first places it spread to, since Afghanistan was closely related to Persia. Making it pretty insane for the Afghan government to ban it after more than 500 years?!?!They might as well ban coins, because they can be a source for gambling!
Please do explain how playing chess is gambling.
You can bet on who wins and loses, but wouldn’t just banning doing that, placing bets, make more sense than banning chess? wtf is there left to do for fun in that part of the world?
Fun is haram because it takes you away from spiritual pursuits. I’m no expert on the theology of Afghan radicals, but having grown up amongst Christian fundamentalists, I presume the thinking is roughly equivalent.
Banning stuff people actually want to do (or even better, have a deep instinctual desire to do like physical intimacy or sex) is what makes the whole “you are all sinners and we have the solution to sell to you” (or alternatively “you are all sinners and you have to do what we say to solve that”) part of the religion scam work.
