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Carmen Bueno, Deputy Commissioner General of the pavilion, tells Gulf News how connected the Arab and Spanish heritages are with the age-old game of chess as their common ground as seen in the exhibition.
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Carmen Bueno, Deputy Commissioner General of the pavilion, tells Gulf News how connected the Arab and Spanish heritages are with the age-old game of chess as their common ground as seen in the exhibition.
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00:00We are in one of the first areas of the exhibition which is devoted to chess.
00:07And this is precisely devoted to chess because chess is one of the examples of the connection between our cultures.
00:17Chess did arrive to Spain around the 8th century.
00:21It was the Arab people who brought it coming from India.
00:26You can see it in a map there.
00:29And in Spain was developed the contemporary rules of chess back in the 15th century.
00:36The main role of the queen in the play was added in Spain.
00:43And then the contemporary rules of chess playing were written in Spain in the 16th century.
00:49And chess is today a universal activity, a universal sport, game and so on.
00:59Chess is an international sport.
01:03Chess is an international sport.
01:08Chess is an international sport.
01:13Chess is an international sport.
01:18Chess is an international sport.
01:23Chess is an international sport.
01:27I think the whole area devoted to Al-Andalus is another specific area in which we talk about our common heritage between the Arab world and our culture.
01:43And then the architecture itself many times reminds the idea of the plaza, which is the Arab souk also.
01:53An open space of encounter, an open space of activity, of trading, of communication.
02:04It's also something very common between our two cultures.
02:13www.globalonenessproject.org