Chess and forgetting

Today I learned something that would've made a great blog post and then forgot about it, so I guess I should say I've learned to write things down right away. 

On the chess front, I learned that I can almost lose a game when I am astonishingly ahead (I had two rooks, two knights, and a bishop left, the computer only had a knight) and I also learned a little about the history of chess. It used to be more boring until they spiced things up, giving the queen much more power, introducing castling, en passant, and the pawn trade rule, and changing how the bishop moves. The Italians called the newly improved queen "furioso" and called the game "rabid chess" because it was so much faster. Considering that tournament games are still several hours long, I would have hated to see chess back in the day,