Did you know that Facebook has a secret hidden in its Messenger app. Built into the messaging platform is ‘FBChess,’ a hidden game that can be accessed with a simple command.
Users can engage in a game of chess in the middle of a conversation, and the trick will work on the mobile Messenger app, the webpage pop-ups, and the traditional messaging window.
Unless you know the command, which most users are unaware of, the secret game goes completely undetected.
To open FBChess, start a conversation with another person, and send ‘@fbchess play’.
The trick was first posted on reddit. This will pull up the game board, and assign colours to the players.
The person who began the game will be ‘White,’ meaning that player will make the first move. It is case sensitive. Accessing the game is simple, but playing may take a few moments of familiarizing if you’re not accustomed to the command notations in chess.
On the horizontal axes, the virtual chess board has letters to represent each column on the board. The vertical axes show numbers, indicating each of the rows across.
The pieces can be moved by dictating which one will be moving, and to what square.
This means: B for bishop, R for rook, Q for queen, K for king, and N for knight (since K has already been used for King). Pawns typically don’t have an abbreviation, but in the game, pawns can be moved by writing ‘P,’ or by issuing the square command without indicating a particular piece.
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