🌟 🌟 🌟20 July is celebrated the international day of Chess, which is also called the world Chess day. The history of chess has about a thousand years and initially their rules were different from those we know now. India is the Homeland of chess. It was there that a relative traditional chess game – chaturang. The main differences from modern chess in it two: players were four, not two, and played two, and played a couple, and moves provided in accordance with the results of throwing playing bones. Now the game looks different, and everyone plays for himself. And some people have the desire to win can contradict even physical needs in sleep and food! 10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CHESS! 👉1. So, the longest party in chess was played in Belgrade in 1989 between I. Nikolich and Arsovich. It lasted more than 20 hours and ended by draw on 269. 👉2. The total number of ways to play the first four moves for both players in the chess game is 318 979 564 000. Most combinations are so multi-dimensional that it is impossible to make forecasts. The same applies to the first four moves in the chess party. There are more than 300 million possible combinations and we cannot determine which one will lead to victory until we analyze the situation. 👉3. Who folded chess The priest who was forbidden to play chess created a folding chess board. Thus he went over the ban of this game. If you put this board on the shelf, it will seem just two books. 👉4. In Russia, the most grandmasters in the world Russia is often called "chess Kingdom". There are more than 250 grandmasters in the country! Russia dominates chess and has more grandmasters than any other state. 👉5. Mat Fool In two moves you can defeat the opponent in chess. The smallest number of moves to obtain a Shah is two, and it is known as a Fool or two-way mat. Game goal: capture the enemy Queen, avoiding the King. To achieve this goal, you must move your Queen by moving only two other figures for one match. 👉6. The longest task of chess Otto Blati, Hungarian electrical engineering, famous as a chess composer, attributed to the creation of the longest chess task he decided for 290 moves. 👉7. Nano chess The smallest set of handmade chess has the size of 8mm x 8mm. it created a master thumbnail Ara David Barracks. 👉8. The most massive chess lesson The most popular and big lesson on chess includes 1459 participants. On September 20, 2018, Gynness record book recorded a new record. It was set by two chess clubs and two schools in Switzerland. 👉9. The oldest chess in the world Chess pieces of ivory, which are considered the world's oldest archaeological chess figures, were found in Uzbekistan. They appeared in Central Asia and date approximately 760. 👉10. First book about chess The oldest known chess manual was written in Arabic and was about 840 years old. Kitab ash Shatranj (book about chess) was written Al Adley AR-Rumi (800-870), known by Arab chess player. #chess Дворец спорта «Центральный»