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International Chess Day – July 20

July 21 , 2019 1956 days 841 0
  • The International Chess Day is celebrated annually on July 20, the day the International Chess Federation (FIDE) was founded, in 1924.
  • From 20 July, 1966, International Chess Day started celebrating to honour the founding of FIDE.
  • To celebrate International Chess Day on 20 July was proposed by UNESCO.
  • In 1851 in London, the first modern chess tournament was held and it was won by German Adolf Andersen.
  • In 1951, Alan Turing developed the first computer program for playing chess.
  • In India Chess was invented in fifth century.
  • At that time, it was named as "Chaturanga".
  • Then this game spread to Persia.

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