There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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There is a growing sport in Berlin and London called Chess Boxing. Players alternate between a round of chess and a round of boxing until one is declared winner either by checkmate, KO, or technical stoppage.
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