Facebook Messenger has a hidden chess game

9 Feb 2016

Steve Wright

Chess fiends out there will be pleased to know that Facebook Messenger has had a hidden chess game within its code for at least the last month.

You can access the game by typing “@fbchess play” in a Messenger window. From there, you need to know text commands to progress the game further.

… and then some.

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Are you going to take advantage of Facebook Messenger chess?

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.