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Hi Mo7ammed and Ehab,

I think I found a slight mistake in the transliteration.

بالتأكيد أعرف.
Shouldn't there be a hamza in the transliteration as..

Betta2keed a3ref.

Shu rayuk?

You are right! We missed the hamza, the best transliteration is, as you said

Betta2keed a3ref

Well done for spotting this

Chess originated in India during the Gupta empire,where its early form in the 6th century was known as caturaṅga, which translates as "four divisions [of the military]" – infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariotry, represented by the pieces that would evolve into the modern pawn, knight, bishop, and rook, respectively. Both the Persians and Arabs attribute the game of chess to the Indians. In Sassanid Persia around 600 the name became shatranj and the rules were developed further. Shatranj was taken up by the Muslim world after the Islamic conquest of Persia, with the pieces largely retaining their Persian names. In Spanish "shatranj" was rendered as ajedrez, in Portuguese as xadrez, and in Greek as zatrikion, but in the rest of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian shāh ("king"), which was familiar as an exclamation and became our words "check and chess".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

Thanks Ehab, I really enjoyed this lesson

I don't know how to play chess

لا اعرف كيف العب الشطرنج