Chess is a required school subject in Armenia.
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The queen used to be one of the worst pieces in chess. In ancient chess, it could only move one square diagonally(the ferz was her name). This ancient chess is called chaturanji and exists as a variant on chess.com
The First Unofficial World Chess Championship was in 1834 between Louis de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell in London.