Surprising and Fun Facts about Chess 2!

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1. The longest game that had a castle move take place was in Bobotsor and Irkov. The castling move was on move 46. O-O.

2. The pawn move where you can go two squares on your first pawn move with a specific pawn started in Spain in 1280.

3. Which chess grandmaster was Albert Einstein friends with? It was Emanuel Lasker! 

4. There are 1,000+ openings in chess.

Captainclam

nice

Shark_Tom_555

I have another

Shark_Tom_555

There are more possible chess games than atoms in the universe