Surprising and Funny Facts about Chess!

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Here are some fun facts that you might've not known!

1. Did you know that in WW2, the best chess players were also master code breakers?

2. The longest possible game could go on for 5,949 moves! I wonder how much time would pass...

3.  The longest chess game was 269 moves, and it ended in a draw!

4. Studies show that the game was created in India in the 7th century!

Avatar of benridge3241

Interesting facts. Thanks for sharing.

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ok

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-4-longest-chess-games-in-history#nikolic-arsovic

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nice

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Impressive, nice to see you back @goldendot!

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thx!

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i did not know everything except that the longest game was 200+ moves