Taliban suspends chess in Afghanistan over gambling concerns
Taliban suspends chess in Afghanistan over gambling concerns
Chess will be suspended until religious considerations are addressed, a spokesman said.
Taliban is going to have to ban a bunch of stuff, because people who get a rush from gambling will gamble on anything.
Just gamble on what they ban next, that way they have to ban banning stuff
I bet they wont ban it. Seriously, 1 goat they dont do it.
Pope betting didn't turn out to be the next hottest thing.
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's when you start playing checkers with quarters tape to each piece.
Start a gambling ring around whether or not teachers do specific things during the day that you don't like. Then maybe they will ban the teachers from ever doing those things.
"10:1 odds that Mr. Peters gives extra homework on Tuesday afternoon!"
In all of my life, I have never met more incompetent and unqualified people in any professional position than that of any “administrator” position in a school. Dean, office, principal, particularly school police officers. These people and the goddamn republicans are what are destroying our education system.
I've met a few decent school administrators. Very few.
Educational administration is largely a dumping ground for the dimwitted middle class, with a few pedos thrown in.
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.
Have the banned buzkashi yet?
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.
Also it involves use of the mind, something the Taliban are resolutely opposed to.
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!
"Which hand is the bean in?"
All foodstuffs banned.
Someone did an en passant on their leader and he’s throwing a fit.