♟️⚡ Victorian innovators used #chess to demonstrate the reliability of the electric #telegraph. Starting with a match between #Washington and #Baltimore, these #games helped prove that people could compete and connect across vast distances almost instantly.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/culture/culture-society/chess-telegraph-feature/

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