We hare already mentioned that
Ha'Zfira might have had the
first mention of chess in the Hebrew press in the world. We now add an earlier occurrence -- because the newspaper used the older term
nardshir (see previous post for more details on the term) instead of
schachmat, (or
schach-mat) as the Hebrew term for 'chess'.
It is an article about the game and its history. Written long before modern chess sholarship, the author - signed 'Z. Scherschewski', presumably the Hebrew writer
Zebi Hirsch Scherschewski -- assumes nardshir is chess, and even claims it is named thus 'after its inventor, Nassir Daher' - but the editor adds on the same page a skeptical footnote, given below, that 'in context, it does not seem nardschir is the game of chess', nardshir in the Talmud being mention in context as 'an easy game that only women play'...
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