28 SUPER AND INTELLIGENT FACTS ABOUT CHESS!
FACTS ABOUT CHESS 1. The Queen’s moves have changed over time. At first, the Queen could only move diagonally, one square at a time. Later on, the Queen could move diagonally, two squares at a time. 2. Be wary of the knight… There are over 122 million possibilities of a knight’s tour, so the knight is very unpredictable. 3. Chess mastery and code-breaking go hand in hand. Some of the top chess players were code breakers during World War II. British masters Harry Golombek, Stuart Milner-Barry, and Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander were on the team that broke the Nazi Enigma code. 4. Checkmate has a meaning behind it! The Persian phrase “Shah Mat” is the origin of the word “Checkmate” in chess. It means “the King is dead”. 5. Classic chessboards have been in Europe for centuries. The first-ever chessboards with dark squares and alternating lights appeared for the first time in Europe in 1090. 6. Chessboards can fold as a result of a...