Usage History of 'chess'

The following chart shows how frequently 'chess' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'chess' occurred 6 times in books in 1563 and 151,206 times in 2008. From 1563 to 2008, the word 'chess' was used a total of 3,548,555 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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