840 AD: The oldest chess puzzle

In this video, I take you through the oldest recorded chess puzzle, from a Persian book by Ad-Adli. It comes with a very nice story about a pair of gambling princes.

Almost 1200 years ago is probably as far back in time as we will be able to take this channel!

Here are two of my previous videos, featuring full games from the 920s:
https://youtu.be/kUYlDdygdLc
https://youtu.be/J0hiyG3NzhM

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