There’s a national pillow fighting tournament in Japan. The fighters start by pretending to sleep on futons and when the whistle sounds, they spring to their feet and race to get a pillow. A mix between dodgeball and chess, teams throw pillows at each other while protecting the ‘King’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Japanese compete to qualify in national pillow fighting tournament | Euronews
In medieval games of chess, pawns that had been promoted to a queen would be given the title of “advisor,” so as to not imply that the king had more than one queen or was unfaithful. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess)
While playing a 3-minute blitz game of chess at the World Championships in 2019, grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wasted 20 seconds of his time taking his suit coat off, drinking water, and organizing his pieces – and still won. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqpeMNtL5A
The people of this Indian village are addicted to chess – WTF fun facts
This man wrote a book on how to raise child prodigy – WTF fun facts
The Turk chess master – WTF fun facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
