Just for fun 
- The longest Chess game theoretically possible is 5,949 moves
- In the match between Britton and Crouch in 1984, the Black player did Check his opponent forty three consecutive times!
- The record of moves without capture is of 100 moves during the Match between Thorton and M. Walker in 1992.
- After each side has played three moves, the pieces could form any one of over nine million possible positions on the board.
- The longest time for a Castling move to take place in a title match was the match game between Bobotsor vs. Irkov in 1966: 46. 0-0
- The longest time recorded for a Chess player to make a move, goes to the International Grand Master Trois from Brazil with 2 hours and 20 minutes on the 7th move.
- The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of Chess is 318,979,564,000.
- The first mechanical Chess Clock was invented by Thomas Wilson in 1883. Prior to that, Sandglasses were used. Sandglasses were first used in London in 1862. The present day push-button Clock was first perfected by Veenhoff in 1900.
- There are 169,518,829,100,544,000 ways to play the first ten moves in a game of Chess
- Blathy, Otto (1860-1939), credited for creating the longest Chess Problem, mate in 290 moves. (uzdavini galima paziureti su sprendimu: linkas)
- The shortest game ending in mate after two moves: 1. g4 e6 or e5, 2. f3 or f4 Qh4 mate.
- The longest Chess game is 269 moves (I. Nikolic - Arsovic, Belgrade 1989) which ended in a draw.
- The youngest Master was Jordy Mont-Reynaud at 10 years, 7 months (1994). The oldest player to become a Chess Master was Oscar Shapiro, at age 74.
- There are eight different ways to Mate in two moves and 355 different ways to Mate in three moves.
- The Anderssen-Kolisch match in 1861 was the first time a time-limit was used. An hour-glass gave each player 2 hours to make 24 moves.
- Dr. Emanuel Lasker from Germany retained the World Chess Champion title for more time than any other player ever: 26 years and 337 days.
- There are 400 different possible positions after one move each.
- There are 72,084 different possible positions after two moves each. There are over 9 million different possible positions after three moves each. There are over 288 billion different possible
positions after four moves each. The number of distinct 40-move games is far greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe.