'Shah mat' sounds close like 'shohomot' which means 'agree' in Bengali
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The number of possible permutations possible in chess is more than the number of atoms in the universe
The knight is actually a horse 🤯
Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia, died of a stroke in the middle of a chess game.
blueemu wrote:
Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia, died of a stroke in the middle of a chess game.
Did his opponent have to wait for his time to run out?
blueemu wrote:
Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia, died of a stroke in the middle of a chess game.
Tzar mat?
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Something the mat-ter?
One of the most ming blowing chess facts I read was that a Hungarian inventor in the 1760s or so invented the automatic chess-playing machine. Only after 84 years, it was found that actually, a man was sitting all the time inside that machine.
Thalaiva98 wrote:
One of the most ming blowing chess facts I read was that a Hungarian inventor in the 1760s or so invented the automatic chess-playing machine. Only after 84 years, it was found that actually, a man was sitting all the time inside that machine.
WHHHHAA WOW :0 totally mind-blowingg
Oh yeah I remember that story
Here's another one:
As the story goes, when chess was presented to a great king, the king offered the inventor any reward that he wanted. The inventor asked that a single grain of rice be placed on the first square of the chessboard. Then two grains on the second square, four grains on the third, and so on. Doubling each time.
The king, baffled by such a small price for a wonderful game, immediately agreed and ordered the treasurer to pay the agreed-upon sum. A week later, the inventor went before the king and asked why he had not received his reward. The king outraged that the treasurer had disobeyed him, immediately summoned him and demanded to know why the inventor had not been paid. The treasurer explained that the sum could not be paid - by the time you got even halfway through the chessboard, the amount of grain required was more than the entire kingdom possessed.
The king took in this information and thought for a while. Then he did the only rational thing a king could do in those circumstances. He had the inventor killed, as an object lesson in the perils of trying to outwit the king.
For the most part, this fable is used as a lesson in the power of exponential growth. From the one grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, the amount increases to the point that by the time you get to square 64, there are over 18 quintillion grains of rice on the board.
Here's one did you know that the longest theoretical chess game possible is 5,949.
Thalaiva98 wrote:
One of the most ming blowing chess facts I read was that a Hungarian inventor in the 1760s or so invented the automatic chess-playing machine. Only after 84 years, it was found that actually, a man was sitting all the time inside that machine.
A very old man, after 84 years?
In 1895, the new World Chess Champion Emmanuel Lasker faced Harry Nelson Pillsbury in a quadrangular tournament along with Chigorin and Steinitz. With the Black pieces and playing a Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch variation, Lasker beat Pillsbury in a beautiful game...
After the game, Pillsbury studied the position relentlessly until he found the move that he had missed at the time, the opening novelty that would have given him the advantage..
Ten years later, in 1904, Pillsbury was very ill. He would be dead within two years. But he had one last tournament game with Lasker. Same opponent. Same colors. Same variarion, Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch variation. This time Pillsbury played the new move that he had been saving ever since that loss to Lasker ten years before.
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You might or might not know this, but the word checkmate came from the Persian phrase "shah mat", which means 'the king is dead". Also chess was invented in India. Do u know any other facts? If u do, share them