1177647 Bozorgmehr, grand vizier to Khosrau I (501-79), challenges the Indian envoy to a game of chess by Persian School, (16th century); (add.info.: The Shahnameh or Shah-nama (\'The Book of Kings\') is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c.977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Iran and related Perso-Iranian cultures. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, it the myths and historical past of Greater Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century. Intellectual games such as chess and backgammon demonstrated and celebrated the diplomatic relationship between Khosrau and a ???reat king of India.??); Pictures from History; Persian, out of copyright.