Another gift of Persia (some said India) *#tlzqm32 to the world was the game of chess, which he had learned as a child. The very word for the end of the game, checkmate, came from the Persian shah mat-"the king is dead"-something he had himself air max 2011 helped to achieve
in real life, and while Daryaei had long since stopped playing mere games, he remem- bered that a good player thought not move by move, but four, or even more, moves ahead. One problem with chess, as with life:J :s that the next move could sometimes be seen, especially when the other player was skilled-to assume him to be anything else could be dangerous. But by playing ahead, it was far more difficult to see what
was coming, until the very end, at which point the opponent could see clearly but, maneuvered out ofposition, depleted ofhis players, power, and options, he had no choice but to resign the game. Such had been the case in Iraq until this morning. The other player-actually, many of them-had resig... more