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by tropdrop
1724 days ago
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And "shahmaty" is what chess is called in Russian – шахматы. The expression for check and mate is shah i mat (шах и мат) also, but "shah" (шах) in Russian sounds almost exactly like the word for a step (шаг) – it sounds a bit like saying here is my final step, my final move. Growing up, I thought that's where the expression came from, and had no clue it was from Arabic! Thanks for this. |
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