Persia
c. 600 - Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan
- Artakhshir did this, and by God's help he became doughtier and more skilled than them all in ball-play, in horsemanship, in chess, in hunting and in all other accomplishments.
(It is fairly certain chess is meant due to the word shatranj being used).
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