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Interesting truth about chess


Some are the giant fans of this game, obsessing the tricks to bring the opponent to checkmate in the fastest time frame possible.

Other people simply can't care less, while there are some people without clues how to play this popular table game.

Whatever your opinion about chess is, no longer escapes the fact that it has an attractive history and boasts some interesting facts.

Origin of chess

Chess is currently being played around the world, but its origin is said to start from India back in the 6th century.

The historian doesn't really know where exactly where chess comes from, but most agrees that India is a very possible place.

The game has changed over the years, and it takes nearly a thousand years to find its way to Southern Europe.

In the 15th century, Spain was slow but certainly became a fan of this famous game, and the 19th century witnessed standardized gaming rules like catch chess tournaments

International chess tournament

London

Howard Staunton, a English master of chess, held an event as a way to gather the best chess players in Europe.

Adolf Anderssen won this event, defeated 15 other players and then became a champion during the 1850s and 1860s.

Wilhelm Steinitz is a name that you definitely know when it comes to the chess world.

Born in Austria, he won the first world championship in 1886, and continued to win 25 CHES

At the age of 58, he lost the title to Emanuel Lasker, who became the longest champion (26 and 337 days).

Lasker is also a good friend of Albert Einstein, who claims that he doesn't have time for chess and doesn't want to endure anything that will force his mind to work further after a hard day.

However, Einstein has become a fan of the board game in life later, but we don't know if that Emanuel Lasker has talked to him or not.

However, he has never played a multi-hour game like Stepak and Mashian did - this couple defeated the world record after 24 hours and 30 minutes of playing games in 1980.

Nine years later, Nikolic and Arsovic beat the record for most moves played in a chess game, a total of an incredible 269.

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There are 5,949 moves possible in a chess game, which makes others can accompany and steal their crown in the future.

With 64 squares on a chessboard, can not imagine a few results of a game.

However, after every player has four moves, more than 318 billion POs can

As a chess player, good children can move a space or two space on their first move.

In a century before the Spaniards bring this rule, a priest has given an invention that we still use to this day.

It was 1125, and the priest knows that he will be in trouble playing chess, because this is contrary to the Church's rules.

Instead of applying for this law, he thought of a folding chess.

He designed it to look exactly like two books when it was placed on a bookshelf, so no one found his little secret.

Chess is good for your brain.

Besides Sudoku and other puzzles and games, chess was named one of the best ways to improve minds and memories.

Patients with Alzheimer's disease are often encouraged to play flags in their spare time, and it has been introduced in many schools.

In some cases, people have seen to improve the test results of children learn, and scientists have been known to argue that chess

It seems that many people will be able to benefit from chess plays, because estimating 600 million people around the world know how to play games.

The oldest chess set was used in Harry Potter.

Fans of both chess and Harry Potter will be fascinated to read that the oldest discovered chess set has been used during Harry Potter film and witches.

It was found on Lewis island in Scotland, but was done somewhere in Scandinavia and was said to have returned to the 12th century.

Finally, chess is a game that are young and old people who are enjoyed as long as it was around.

Oscar Shapiro became a chess master at the age of 74, and by contrast