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In 1970s chess became a battlefield of the Cold War when the match between Spassky and Fischer took place. Everyone was glad American Fischer won, and everyone wanted to play chess for years after tha
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Top Ten Interesting Facts About Chess
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Current president of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov claims he was abducted by aliens and that aliens had told him that they have humans chess. Kasparov and other famous chess players think Ilyumzhinov is cra
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Other people believe that chess can cause people to go insane, eccentric, or paranoid.American Paul Morphy was crazy, Bobby Fischer was paranoid and maybe schizophrenic. Other people claim their frien
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Many people believe that chess somehow benefits the mind and trains memory. But it could all be a myth.
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Historically original ancestor of chess has spread to Japan, China, India, Thailand, Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam, Middle East. They are all different as far as rules and appearance but all have same orig
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Many famous people in history and modernity played it play chess. Napoleon, Barack Obama,Vladimir Lenin, Che Guevara, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Falk, and even Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold takes chess pr
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Many mathematicians tried to calculate total possible positions of chess pieces, as well as total possible games(very different things) and all of them come up with results that are in hundreds of bil
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Chess was prohibited in some countries in past centuries by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches because it was viewed as obsessive gambling that distracted people from work. Despite bans it was
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Historically chess was played by royalty, aristocrats, BUT also monks and priests at monasteries.
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People still don't know where chess originated. Some say India, but new findings say before India it was in China.
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