Approximately 988 million positions that can be reached after just 4 moves for white and 4 for black! True or false? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Did you know?
* The word “Checkmate” in Chess comes from the Arabic language. The original form is “Shah Mat,” which means “the King is dead.” * From the starting position, there are eight different ways to Mate in two moves and...
Did you know…
… that the longest possible chess games is nearly 6,000 moves? (5,949 to be exact) … that in 1985, Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Champion ever at only 22 years 210 days? … that the word “Checkmate”comes from...
Chess Facts and History
Chess facts and history • Researchers think chess may have originated in India as a war game, chatarung, dating to as early as A.D. 600. • The piece that is now the queen originally was the king’s adviser. Europeans...
Chess fun facts
October 6, 1857 – The American Chess Congress held the first national chess tournament in New York City! Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar