Some Interesting information about chess

SOME INTERESTİNG INFORMATİON ABOUT CHESS

-Theoretically, a maximum of 5870 moves can be played in a chess game.

-The first chess board with white and black squares was made in Europe in 1090.

-According to the American Chess Association, there are 169,518,829,100,100,544,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different options that can be played in the first 10 moves of chess.

-The longest chess game took place in 1989 in Belgrade between Nikolic and Arsovic. After 269 moves the match ended in a draw.

-On the chessboard there are 400 options when 2 sides make 1 move each, 72,084 options when 2 sides make 2 moves each, and more than 4 million options when 2 sides make 3 moves each. After 4 moves made by 2 sides there are 318 billion options. The number of options after 40 moves by 2 sides is more than the number of calculable electrons on Earth.

-The rule that pawns can move in 2 moves instead of 1 in the first move was developed in Spain in 1280.

-The first chess game between space and Earth was played by the Soyez-9 crew on June 9, 1970, and ended in a draw.

-The folding chess board was invented by a priest. When it was forbidden to play chess, they found this chess board, which when folded, looked like two books.

-Kirk and Spock in Star Trek played chess 3 times. Kirk won all 3 games.

-In Long Beach, California, a computer called Deepthought became the first computer to beat a grandmaster in November 1988.

-The latest match in which a rook was made was between Bobotsor and Ilkovin in 1966. The rook was made on the 46th move.

-Until 1561, the rook was made in 2 moves. Instead of replacing the king and rook in one move, the rook and king were made one move at a time.

-The word "shah mat" was added to chess from Persian idiom. "Shah mat" means "the king is dead" in Persian.

-Blathy found the longest chess problem in the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s with 290 moves.

-In Cleveland in 1973, the police came to a chess tournament and arrested the tournament director for stealing chess sets and the winners' prizes.

-There are 122 million moves that a knight can make on a chessboard.

-From the beginning of the game, there are 8 different ways to checkmate after the 2nd move and 355 different ways to checkmate after the 3rd move.

-The great chessmen of the time, English grand masters harry golombek, stuart milner, and h.o'd. alexander were involved in decoding the enigma codes used by nazi germany in encrypted messaging during the 2nd world war.

-In 1985 eric knoppert played 500 games in 68 hours with 10 minute chess games.

-Frank marshall was the first American to defeat a Soviet player in an international tournament. In 1924 he defeated ed lasker. He was also the first player to have more than 100 simultaneous games as of 1923.

-Albert Einstein, a close friend of chess champion Emanuel Lasker, said in an interview with the New York Times that he had no time to play any game.

-In a game between mason and mckenzie in 1882, 72 consecutive queen moves were made.

-In 1992, in a game between thorton and m.walker, 100 moves were played without a piece being defeated.

-The 2nd book published in English is about chess.

-FIDE (world chess federation) stands for federation internationale des echecs.

-The first computer developed for playing chess was developed by Alan Turing in 1951.

-The oldest recorded chess game was played between a historian and his student in ancient Baghdad in the 900s.

-About 600 000 000 people worldwide know how to play chess.

-pawn (pawn) means soldier, foot soldier in many languages, but in Spanish and German it means peasant or farmer.

-The first mechanical chess clock was developed by Thomas Wilson in 1883. Prior to that, an hourglass was used, while today's push clock was first developed by Veenhoff in 1900.

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