Did You Know?

Did You Know?

Chess is over 1,300 years old

That it originally comes from the Indian Sub-continent (modern day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka)

That FIDE (the World Chess Federation) is the second largest sporting federation in the world. Over 120 nations compete at the bi-annual Olympiad (Chess Olympics)

Britain is one of the few countries where chess is not classified as a sport in either Europe, or the world at large

That there are daily chess columns in the Daily Telegraph, The Times & The Independent

That England was the second strongest nation in the world throughout the 80s, second only to the Soviet Union

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