chess facts

#11 Russia has higher number of chess grandmasters than any other country at 256 GMs.

#12 Sergey Karjakin holds the record for youngest chess grandmaster ever at 12 years and 7 months.

#13 Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa became the youngest international master in history, at the age of 10 years, 10 months, and 19 days.

#14 The second book ever printed in the English language was about chess.

#15 - In all his life, Philidor never played the Philidor Defense! - :]

#16 Meghan Markle has a FIDE rating of 2188. That's a lie :p

#15 fact check
www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?yearcomp=exactly&year=&playercomp=either&pid=31576&player=&pid2=&player2=&movescomp=exactly&moves=&opening=&eco=c41&result=0-1

#17 I got that info from the Fireside Book of Chess...an old book. It clearly stated that no games could be found with Philidor playing black. Well he had at least two games. :]

#18 No, #15 is correct: the two "games" appear to be only published analysis by Philidor, not real games

#19 Aladdin was originally a famous chessplayer 😀