10 Interesting Fact About The Game of Chess

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• Before becoming a strategy game, chess was used as a tool of war simulation for soldiers in India.
• Chess game was first introduced to Europe in the 9th century by Arab explorers.
• Chess is the only game that is recognized as an intellectual sport by the International Olympic Committee.
• There are more than 169 million possible initial positions in chess games.
• Chess is a game that is used as an intelligence test in several countries.
• In 1997, Deep Blue's computer defeated the chess world champion, Garry Kasparov, in a famous match.
• In 1985, a teenager named Judit Polgar became the youngest chess player to achieve the Grandmaster title.
• Initially, pieces in chess games are used as a symbol for farmers in the Middle Age.
• Horse in a chess game was originally described as an elephant in Indian culture.
• There are more than 2,000 books written about chess strategies and many of them become bestsellers.