Timur also personally met with— and impressed— the famed Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in Damascus, and he so thoroughly mastered chess that he is said to have enjoyed a more complex variant that was named for him.
En Damasco, Timur encontró —y sorprendió— personalmente al célebre historiador árabe Ibn Khaldun, y dominó al ajedrez a tal punto que hay quién dice que le gustaba una variante más compleja a la que le dieron su nombre.