Through the Mirror of Chess: A Cultural Exploration

A captivating 4-part docuseries examining the remarkable impact of chess on culture, art, science, and sport. These films will take the viewer on an exhilarating journey across a wide range of times and places touching on cultural history, the nature of competitiveness, AI, psychology, game theory, chess variants, art, literature, gender issues, education, social empowerment, prison reform, and much more to comprehensively address the question of what makes the game so unique. In this work, A. Panaino offers a detailed description of the history of chess in the Sasanian world, and it ideological role within the Iranian late antiquity socety.