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- ...that an allumwandlung is a form of chess problem of which the full solution involves, as, the promotion of a pawn or pawns to a knight, bishop, rook, and queen?
- ...that neither Ukraine, which won the open division, nor China, which won the women's division, medalled in the overall title calculation at the 36th Chess Olympiad after the former's women's team and the latter's open team finished 18th and 24th respectively?
- ...that the Sokolsky Opening, an irregular opening in which white advances his queen's knight's pawn two squares on his first move (1. b4) is sometimes known as the Orangutan Opening because it was the opening move "suggested" by an orangutan to Polish Grandmaster Savielly Tartakower (pictured) during the latter's 1924 visit to the Bronx Zoo?
- ...that Georgian Grandmaster and thirteen-year women's world champion Maia Chiburdanidze has been commemorated on multiple postage stamps, including one issued by Mongolia in 1986 to depict a position from her 1984 world championship match with Russian Woman Grandmaster Irina Levitina?
- ...that the 1874 varsity match between the Oxford University Chess Club, the oldest university chess club in the United Kingdom, and the club of the University of Cambridge was attended by many prominent London chess masters, including future world chess champion Austrian Wilhelm Steinitz, who served as arbiter?
- ...that, after he was discovered to have used the HIARCS computer chess engine, accessed via a Bluetooth-enabled device situated in his cap, to aid his play at the 2006 Subroto Mukerjee Memorial, Indian Umakant Sharma was banned from competitive chess for ten years by the All India Chess Federation in what is the longest suspension recorded to have been leveled for cheating in chess?
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