For freezing or canning: 1  Blanch ears for 4 minutes in boiling water. 2  Cool ears and cut kernels from cob at about one-half of their depth. 3  Scrape the cob with a knife to remove the remainder of the kernels and combine with half-kernels.
Chess is a game played between two opponents on opposite sides of a board containing 64 squares of alternating colors. Each player has 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 2 knights, and 8 pawns. The goal of the game is to checkmate the other king.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of Chess is 318,979,564,000. The first mention of Chess in America occurred in the year of 1641 in Esther Singletonâs history of Dutch settlers. The first American Chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.