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Chess is one of the best board game which helps in the upgradation of Brain with creative thinking and memory boosting, also playing chess regularly will increase your thinkig speed in your day to day life.
Theoretically, a chess game can last 5,949 moves under the 50-move rule which states a player must make progress within 50 moves, or the game is drawn.
The quickest checkmate in chess happens in just two moves in which the first two moves from the opponent ends the match.
In 1912, a Spanish scientist named Leonardo Torres y Quevedo built one of the earliest chess-playing machines, called El Ajedrecista.
The number of unique chess games possible is estimated to be around more than the number of atoms in the universe.
In medieval chess, the queen could only move one square diagonally. Her modern powerful movement was introduced around the 15th century in Spain.
The longest recorded competitive chess game lasted 269 moves between Nikolić and Arsović in 1989. It ended in a draw after 20 hours of play.
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