Saturday, November 24, 2007

Linguistic note

In Russian, the word chess translates to shakhmaty (in Persian). Literally this means "kill the king." I wonder why Putin has a problem with Kasparov...

1 comment:

Arelcao Akleos said...

You have to wonder at what point Putin puts the Polonium to a fresh use.

11/26/2007 1:48 AM