Chess is the most famous intellectual game in the world
Its origin is India.
The number of possible chess games is billions of times greater than the number of atoms in the world
The longest official chess game was 269 moves in 1989 in Belgrade
This game took more than 20 hours
The first computer program was written in 1950 by Alan Turing
In 1997, the computer Deb Blue was able to defeat Kasparov
This system could process 200 million situations per second
Sujerdi Mont-Reynaud became the greatest chess master at the age of ten
The longest chess championship record belongs to German Emanuel Lasker. Nearly 27 years
The current world champion is Magnus Carlsen. He was born in 1990 in Norway
Carlsen defeated Anand in 2014 and became the world champion
In 2016, he defeated Karjakhin and became the world champion
In 2018, he defeated Fabiano and became the world champion
In 2021, Nepo defeated Menyashi and became the world champion
In 2013, Carlsen got a rating of 2861 and broke Kasparov's record of 2851.
In 1999, it reached the highest rating of 2882
Magnus has the most wins, no losses. That means 125 games without losing