Long forced mate from >1000 years ago!

Shatranj is an ancient Persian chess variant, popular over a thousand years ago.

In today's manuscript, we have an alleged mate in 43, between the two ancient players Hisham and An-Nasrani.
In making this video, a found a modern twist, so stick around until the end of the video to find out what that is.

In case you missed them, here are some of my previous shatranj videos...

Two full games from the 920s:
https://rumble.com/v185zcm-the-year-920-al-suli-vs-al-lajlaj.html
https://rumble.com/v18nkmy-second-oldest-game-al-suli-vs-caliph-al-muqtadir-920s.html

And a forced mate in 71!
https://rumble.com/v3icc0s-mate-in-71-the-water-wheel.html

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