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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 135

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 01broadNO SINGLE PIN

late antique–early Islamic period

Persian-speaking chess culture

checkmate DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The Persian chess expression presents the trapped king as helpless or paralyzed rather than securely “dead.” The stage is linguistic and cultural, not one point on a map.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The cited chess history supports the Persian analysis but does not assign this lexical stage one conservative numeric interval.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

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Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Chess

    Explains that the king becomes powerless or paralyzed rather than being killed and treats the expression as Persian chess terminology. It does not license a single geographic point.

    Chess i, discussion of šāh-māt and the powerless kingAUDIT SOURCE ↗