8 Intresting facts about chess

Hi friends

today i have come up with a blog called intresting facts about chess

1.  The longest chess game is history can be lasted for max-5949 moves

2.The word "check mate" in chess comes from persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means king is dead

3. The longest official chess game lasted for over 269 moves (i will be posting the chess game soon)

4. In 1985 Eric Knoppert played 500 games of chess in less then 68 hours

5. Around 6 million people + know how to play chess

6. Chess began in india in the gupta empire(The gupta emipire consisted a great king called chandragupta) then chess spread to persia then to the muslims etc

7. In chess there is a game of blind fold chess

8. The worst performance by a chess player is a player loosing 31 games in a row