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Did you know ...

• in 1866, French chessplayer Napoleon Marache published one of the first chess books in the United States, which also discussed strategy for backgammon and dominoes?
• historian and biographer Hans Olav Lahlum is also an International Arbiter in chess?
• four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935?
• the Japanese animated television series Last Exile uses terms from chess in its episode titles?
• the Austrian Attack was used against Bobby Fischer when he played the Pirc Defence for the first time in his chess career?
• the first major international chess tournament took place in London in 1851?
• the first coach of Lithuanian chess International Master Viktorija Čmilytė (pictured) was her father?
• the Thue-Morse sequence has applications in number theory, combinatorics, differential geometry and chess?
• excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl-on-the-Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all inscribed with Runic graffiti?
• Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap?
• visually impaired chess player Reginald Bonham founded the International Braille Chess Association?
• Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the Republic of Kalmykia and head of the World Chess Federation, built the multi-million dollar Chess City complex for hosting international chess tournaments?
• Church of England clergyman William Wayte also was a minor British chess master in the late 1800s?
• Frank Parr, an English chess player, won the Hastings Premier during his first and only appearance at the tournament in 1939/1940?
• James Mortimer was regularly invited to chess tournaments even though he lost most of his matches, managing to beat masters including Johannes Zukertort and Mikhail Chigorin?
• Queen's Gambit Accepted is a chess opening in which Black takes a White pawn after two moves, but is not a real gambit because Black cannot count on keeping his advantage?
• Maia Chiburdanidze was the youngest woman ever to win the women's world chess championship?
• 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess-like game, Los Alamos chess?