June 20 - World Chess Day
🕌It is known that this sport was born in India. It was a war game in which a board and grains were used to replace the pieces.
👑The terms "checkmate" and "checkmate" originated from the Persian expression shahmat ("the king is dead").
A draw or a loss can happen even before the players start making moves. This happens in the case of a certain scenario in the standings or as a result of the fact that the player did not come or was late for the game. For example, at the Chinese Championship in 2009, Hou Yifan received a technical defeat. She was five seconds late for the party.
📱If a chess player's phone rings during the game, he will be automatically credited with a defeat or assigned a draw, if the opponent in theory could not already win.
♟The folding chessboard was invented in 1125 by a priest: the church forbade clergymen to play chess, but he decided to circumvent the ban and, in order to hide a chess set, came up with a folding board that looked like the spines of two books when lying on a shelf.