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Fun Fact: Chess originated in Pakistan and India.
It takes 2897653 zillion nose hairs laying side by side to reach pluto
That has nothing to do with chess. And zillion is ambiguous.
half of chess originated in China and part in India. And the nose hairs will only reach Pluto if it is closest to the earth and the nose hairs are from a Greek person.
MuhammadAreez10 wrote:
That has nothing to do with chess. And zillion is ambiguous.
Huh ? It has much to do with chess, think about it with your brain.
28 97 6 5 3
I suggest you learn Chess notation, specifically Concise reversible, Smith, and Descriptive Coordinate before you go all maniac mode on the forums again.
How can a Zillion be ambiguous during an exact calculation ? This isn't religion Muhammad, its an Indeterminate descriptive clearly comprehensible articulation of numerical fact, related to the "Queens 7th sequential trap" by John K Shaw.
Another Fun Chess Fact: FIDE was founded 23 years before Pakistan was founded, making it impossible for chess to have originated in Pakistan.
brilliant Miss Tok
If you put one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, two on the second, four on the third and so on doubling each time, you'd get bored very quickly, and probably have mice too.
blitzjoker wrote:
If you put one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, two on the second, four on the third and so on doubling each time, you'd get bored very quickly, and probably have mice too.
lol Asia would starve & eat the mice before you reach half the board 
if you put a hundred mice in a room for a zillion years with 100 chess sets and all the rice in China they still won't be able to play the KID.
Solastalgia wrote:
lol. But, how can we be so sure about that?
if you put a hundred mice in a room for a zillion years with 100 chess sets and all the rice in China they still won't be able to play the KID.
blitzjoker wrote:
Lol. Nice one. Never tried that. :)
If you put one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, two on the second, four on the third and so on doubling each time, you'd get bored very quickly, and probably have mice too.
Easy , mice only live about six years
Solastalgia wrote:
Easy , mice only live about six years
There are exceptions, like the mice from 'The Green Mile'.
yes but where are you going to find 100 green mile mice? Don't overthink this ,trust me they won't play the KID.
If you put Magnus Carlsen in a lumberjack outfit ,gave him a beard and an axe and taught him Krav Maga he would still only be 10% as manly as any other world champion before him.
Vishy Anand is Viswanathan Anand . Anand is a name not a surname and Viswanathan is not a name it is more like a surname. It is basically a mix-up. He was born in Leeds, England before moving to India and his father first wanted to call him Jerry.
77% of films or TV shows featuring a chess game have the board the wrong way round. And 100% use chess playing as shorthand for the protaganist being clever and/or insane.
kleelof wrote:
Makot is checkers.
Thai chess is Makrook.
Our chess is Makrook Farang.
Oh. Ok. The names are similar.