Do you believe that King Solomon is the Real GM?
This is an interesting concept. First, how do you know King Solomon did not play chess? Granted, most histories of chess attribute the game only as early as the late 1st millenium after Christ, but on most accounts, no one really knows when chess was invented. You gotta admit, it's possible. Second, King Solomon certainly had a large number of queens, but what makes his life "the real chess"?
Jason
...but on most accounts, no one really knows when chess was invented...
Ba(d)tgirl does and she's gonna tear pieces of you for making a statement like that dude...
"Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and Moabite, Ammonite, E'domite, Sido'nian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods"; Solomon clung to these in love. He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ash'toreth the goddess of the Sido'nians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done." (1 Kings 11.1-6 RSV)
The above biblical passage proved the King didn't do that. True, the Israelites including the King are forbidden to marry foreigners but Solomon broke that.
It's Prince Phillip. Not Duke. Commonly known in England as 'Phil the Greek'
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