Shatranj players

10th-century Turkic scholar at Abbasid court

Moorish writer

Al-Adli al-Rumi (; 800–870), was an Arab player and theoretician of Shatranj, an ancient form of chess from Persia. Originally from Anatolia, he authored one of the first treatises on Shatranj in 842, called Kitab ash-shatranj ('Book of Chess').