Portal:Chess/Did you know/3
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
- ...that Russian team competing in the open division at the 37th Chess Olympiad in 2006 comprised six of the event's top seventeen players by rating and entered the event seeded first but ultimately failed to medal?
- ...that the chess problem Excelsior, published by American puzzle author Sam Loyd in 1861 and named for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Excelsior", requires a player in a given chess problem to deliver checkmate with the least likely piece or pawn?
- ...that grasshopper chess is a variant game in which a fairy piece grasshopper, represented by an inverted queen figurine, begins in the game in any of several placements but moves invariably by hopping over another piece at any distance to the square directly beyond the piece?