5000 Fun Facts About Chess!

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1.There are 318, 979, 564, 000 possible ways to play the first four moves of a chess game on each side of the board.

2. The longest game of chess that is theoretically possible is 5,949 moves.

3. The word "checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which is often translated to "the king is dead", although more accurate may be "the king is trapped" or " the king is without escape".

4.Kirk and Spock have played chess three times on the show Star Trek. Kirk won all three games.

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really cant you just knight dance for the whole game. every 50 moves u move a pawn one square.

That accounts for all of 2400 moves.

6.The number of possible, unique chess games is far greater than the number of electrons in the universe!

There are in total 96 pawn moves and 30 captures possible, so if every possible 50-move draw gets claimed, the longest possible game should be (96+30)*50=6300 moves.

Right?

The world's most attractive chess player is Tanya Sachdev.

Obviously you've never heard of Alexandra Kosteniuk.

So one piece is captured every 50 moves?

maybe

This is very subjective

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