Coolest facts about chess that YOU probably didn't know Part 2ably didn't know Part 1

6. The longest possible chess game comes up to a whopping 5,949 moves!!

7. In the English language, the second book to ever be printed took was about chess (it must have been really popular!!)

8. There are a total of eight different ways from the starting position to Mate in just two moves, whereas there are a total of 355 different paths to mate using three moves.

9. In 1985, Eric Knoppert played 500 games of 10-minute Chess in 68 hours.

10. The record of moves without capture is of 100 moves during the Match between Thornton and M. Walker in 1992.