Top 10 chess facts

India. Chess is believed to have originated in India. The game was reported in 6th century as a gift of Indian raja to Persian shah Khosrau I Anushiruwān. Original Indian chaturanga was a base of local chatrang, and after Arab conquest of Persian empire it was brought by them to Europe, where it evolved into current form.

He may use any item as the extra queen. Since the queen is the most powerful piece, the vast majority of promotions in practical play are to a queen. If the queen is not available, the official rules are that the player should stop the game clock and summon the arbiter for the correct piece. In casual play, an upside-down rook may be used to designate a queen. Some finer sets do include an extra queen of each color.

King and rook. Castling is a move in the game of chess involving a player's king and either of the player's original rooks. It is the only move in chess in which a player moves two pieces in the same move, and it is the only move aside from the knight's move where a piece can be said to "jump over" another

Simultaneous exhibition. A simultaneous exhibition allows playing chess games by amateurs or weaker players with a chess champion.

64. A chessboard is the type of board game used in the game chess, over which the chess pawns (pieces) are laid. It's usually square in shape, with an alternating pattern of two colours between its subdivisions. In standard 1vs1 games, a chessboard is a square with sides; 8 x 8 grids.

King is helpless. The term is an alteration of the Persian phrase "Shāh Māt". It is a common misconception that it means "the King is dead", as chess reached Europe via the Islamic world, and Arabic māta means "died".

160. Four-player chess is a family of chess variants typically played with four people. A special board made of standard 8×8 squares with an additional 3 rows of 8 cells extending from each side. There are many different rule variations; most variants, however, share the same board and similar piece setup.

In 1924. The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation was founded in Paris, France, on July 20, 1924. It is usually referred to as FIDE, its French acronym.

Vera Menchik was a British-Czechoslovak-Russian chess player who gained renown as the world's first women's chess champion. She successfully defended her title six times in every other championship held during her lifetime, losing only one game, while winning 78 and drawing four games.

32. The chessboard is 8x8, and every second square is white.