11. The second book ever printed in the English language was in fact about chess!
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12. The longest game of chess that is theoretically possible is 5,949 moves.
kaynight wrote:
There are thousands of members on Chess.com. Every one insane except me.
And me!
Well, I don't care ... as long as I can play chess. "We all go a little mad sometimes"- Norman Bates.
Wonderful way's to go cuckoo...!!
Joker-Jamal wrote:
Never noticed that. Thanks for sharing.
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You cant sneeze with your eyes open
YoungPatzer wrote:
I will keep it in mind. :)
Fact nr 55 ? : The best way to pick up a girl is to buy her a beer.
13. The Isle of Lewis chess pieces are the oldest surviving complete chess set known. Discovered on the Isle of Lewis, in northern Scotland, and dates back to the 12th century, they are made from walrus tusks and show their characters in a range of bad moods - from anger to dipression. They were probably made in Iceland or Norway , and their appearance was used in 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' for the wizard chess pieces. Here's a link to the picture of the Isle of Lewis Chess Set. - http://googleweblight.com/?lite_url=http://www.luxurychess.com/isoflewchess.html&lc=en-IN&s=1&m=2&ts=1436096376&sig=AKQ9UO83s2ekSECggoEclxBsVGHBv-40SQ
lisa_zhang_tok wrote:
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.
Zillion is not a number. And I don't think I need to learn whatever you told me to know that it was not related to chess.
P.S. Chess originated in the part of then-India that is now Pakistan.
14. The longest time for a castling move to take place was the Match game between Bobotsor and Irkovin , 1966 : 46.0-0
15. The number of possibilities of a Knight's Tour is over 122 million!
16. The record of moves without capture is of 100 moves during the match between Thorton and M. Walker in 1992.
17. Albert Einstein was a good friend of World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker. In an interview with the New York Times in 1936 Einstein said , "I do not play any games. There is no time for it. When I get through work I don't want anything which requires the working of the mind." He did take up Chess in his later life.
shine5 wrote:
15. The number of possibilities of a Knight's Tour is over 122 million!
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OH MY GOD!!
Not only were Einstein and Lasker friends, Lasker was one of the very few people who understood the theory of relativity when Einstein published/popularized it. I'm not sure though.
Fun fact-Chess is bull#$%*!!!