In the old days one would bet in a game of chess an amount significant to ones wealth or your manhood would be in question.
> From a 'Mansuba' - A Shatranj problem had this story:
> There once was a chess-addicted prince, Murwardi, who had wagered and lost his entire fortune in an intense chess session. In his desperation he offered his beautiful wife Dilaram as stake, and was losing the game they were playing for her. In the above position his wife called out to him: "Oh Prince, sacrifice your rooks and not your wife." This her husband duly did and saved her with a combination.
(Unsolicited advice is allowed if the player would have found the moves himself. No one would have dared to suggest a woman could do something a man couldn't)
We've come a long way, or maybe not since now we [pretty much] force people to carry around gambling devices if not an entire casino.
It seems we always end up doing things against our better judgement?
> From a 'Mansuba' - A Shatranj problem had this story:
> There once was a chess-addicted prince, Murwardi, who had wagered and lost his entire fortune in an intense chess session. In his desperation he offered his beautiful wife Dilaram as stake, and was losing the game they were playing for her. In the above position his wife called out to him: "Oh Prince, sacrifice your rooks and not your wife." This her husband duly did and saved her with a combination.
(Unsolicited advice is allowed if the player would have found the moves himself. No one would have dared to suggest a woman could do something a man couldn't)
We've come a long way, or maybe not since now we [pretty much] force people to carry around gambling devices if not an entire casino.
It seems we always end up doing things against our better judgement?