Once the wall was completed, a zigzag path of 96 miles followed (177.79 kilometers), of which only 27 miles (50 km) divided Eastern Berlin from the west, the rest of the barriers was separating Western Berlin from the rural areas of Eastern Germany. Image Courtesy of commons.
A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among serious players.
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.