FACTS ABOUT CHESS
Added on: 23rd May 2016
AT AGE SEVEN ALEKHINE NOURI BECAME THE
YOUNGEST FIDE MASTER IN THE WORLD! (FIDE
STANDS FOR FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE
DES ECHECS, WHICH LITERALLY TRANSLATES
TO WORLD CHESS FEDERATION)
THE SPORTS TERM ROOKIES, WHICH DESCRIBES
PLAYERS IN THEIR FIRST YEAR, WAS DERIVED
FROM THE ROOK IN CHESS. ROOKS GENERALLY
ARE THE LAST PIECES TO BE MOVED INTO ACTION
THE FOLDING CHESSBOARD WAS ORIGINALLY
INVENTED IN 1125 BY A CHESS-PLAYING PRIEST.
SINCE THE CHURCH FORBADE PRIESTS TO PLAY
CHESS, HE HID HIS BOARD BY MAKING ONE THAT
LOOKED SIMPLY LIKE TWO BOOKS LYING TOGETHER
THE FIRST MECHANICAL CHESS CLOCK WAS INVENTED
BY THOMAS WILSON IN 1883. PRIOR TO THAT,
SANDGLASSES WERE USED. SANDGLASSES WERE
FIRST USED IN LONDON IN 1862. THE PRESENT-DAY
PUSH-BUTTON CLOCK WAS FIRST PERFECTED
BY VEENHOFF IN 1900
IN 1985, THE SOVIET PLAYER GARRY KASPAROV
BECAME THE YOUNGEST WORLD CHESS CHAMPION
EVER AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-TWO YEARS AND 210 DAYS.
HE’S WIDELY CONSIDERED BY MANY EXPERTS TO BE
THE GREATEST CHESS PLAYER OF ALL TIME. FROM 1986
UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 2005, KASPAROV WAS RANKED
NO. 1 IN THE WORLD FOR 225 OUT OF 228 MONTHS
THE LONGEST TOURNAMENT CHESS GAME (IN TERMS
OF MOVES) EVER TO BE PLAYED WAS BETWEEN
NIKOLIC AND ARSOVIC, IN BELGRADE IN 1989, WHICH
LASTED 269 MOVES AND TOOK 20 HOURS AND 15
MINUTES TO COMPLETE A DRAWN GAME. AT THE TIME
THIS GAME WAS PLAYED, FIDE HAD MODIFIED THE
FIFTY-MOVE RULE TO ALLOW ONE HUNDRED MOVES
TO BE PLAYED WITHOUT A PIECE BEING CAPTURED
IN A ROOK AND BISHOP VERSUS ROOK ENDGAME,
THE SITUATION IN NIKOLIC VERSUS ARSOVIC.
FIDE HAS SINCE RESCINDED THIS MODIFICATION
IN THEORY, THE LONGEST CHESS GAME CAN
GO UP TO 5,949 MOVES
THE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE UNIQUE CHESS GAMES IS
GREATER THAN THE NUMBER OF ELECTRONS IN THE
UNIVERSE. THE NUMBER OF ELECTRONS IS ESTIMATED
TO BE ABOUT 10^79, WHILE THE NUMBER OF
UNIQUE CHESS GAMES IS 10^120.
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