Messenger hides a secret, which is a real challenge for fans of games – Gazeta.pl

Users Messenger can run the game, which is the creator of Facebook had hidden deep in the code. It … chess! To run them, only one command, the game requires a mastery of the dictionary fairly complicated commands. The game is therefore doubly exciting.

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How to play chess with Messenger?

Please call chat window with the selected friend, and then enter the command fbchess play . You will see a traditional chess board and a message that callers are now players. The game starts the person who launched the game.

And here begins the stairs. The movement of individual pieces and figures requires the use of commands. To know also call the command: fbchess help .

fbchess e4 orfbchess PE4 moves pawn to e4
Nbd2 to move knight from b-file is d2
B2xc5 to take on c5 with 2nd rank bishop
e8 = Q to promote pawn to queen

In the illustration below you can see the effect of entering the commands fbchess Pb3 .

Compositions Robert Kędzierski

the game requires a knowledge of English – “knight” is a jumper, a “bishop” is a messenger.

Those who chess know know that Messenger uses the standard algebraic notation . This method of writing a lot of chess, widely used in official competitions of chess, in the literature and magazines, correspondence chess, as well as the chess programs.

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​​ Photo. Fig. Andreas Ivarsson / R. Kędzierski