Today is 20 June
World Chess Day

Chess brings together the elements of scientific thought and art. It infuses the advanced with the ancient and is portable, affordable and an inclusive activity, across age, language, gender, caste, nation, class or any divide.

Do you know:

There are about 2000 variants of chess game.
Mathematically there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the Observable Universe.
It is possible to checkmate an opponent in chess in two moves.