This secret code will let you play chess on Facebook Messenger

 From the amazingly intricate easter egg department: Facebook has a hidden, fully functional, graphical game of chess embedded into its Messenger, and anyone can play.

To start a game, open a Messenger conversation with someone and type "@fbchess play". A chess board will show up, and your game has just started! 

Unfortunately, the board is not drag-and-drop; instead, you need to send text commands to move your pieces across the board, with the board refreshing as a new static image after each move. The commands use Standard Algebraic Notation; in layman's terms, this means that P is pawn, N is knight, B is bishop, R is rook, Q is queen and K is king. To move a pawn from the starting position, for example, you'd type "@fbchess Pb4".

The game supports draws (type "@fbchess draw offer" to offer one), undo (type "@fbchess undo"), and you can resign with "@fbchess resign".

There's quite a bit more to it; to get the full list of commands, type "@fbchess help" into Messenger. The feature, which hasn't been publicly advertised anywhere, has been around for at least a month, when it was spotted on Reddit; the news passed relatively unnoticed until it was picked up by Lifehacker Thursday. 

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Google Is Offering Free Storage Space Of 2GB And Today Is The Last Day For Getting It

Google wants you to take your online security seriously. On the occasion of Safer Internet Day which was on 10 February, the tech giant rolled out a feature for users to verify their security information and make changes if required. As detailed in its blog post, you need to complete a security check by clicking this link.

Once you click on the link, you will be prompted to enter your Google account information and complete your security review in a couple of steps. You can check your phone number and recovery email address, the devices connected to your account as well as the apps and websites that you have given permission to access your Google account.


After this is done, you will automatically receive an upgrade of 2GB in your Google account that can be used across services like Gmail, Google Plus and Google Drive among others. This means that apart from the standard 15GB space on your Google account, you can bump it to 17 GB after completing this review in less than a couple of minutes.

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Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do With Google Drive

Since its introduction, Google Drive has changed the way we work around in Gmail. It is not only time saving, but also lets us organize our emails in a far better way than we used to. If you are getting accustomed to using drive or are already pretty good using it, here are seven things you didn’t know you can do with Google Drive.

1.Offline Spreadsheets


If your work calls for making a lot of spreadsheets, than this feature can be nothing less than a blessing for you. Updated last year, the new Google Drive spreadsheets have new functions like Averageif (which gives you the average of specified cells), and unlimited cells, formulas and columns. The best new feature is that you can even create, edit or modify these spreadsheets without an internet connection. You can simply log in and make a spreadsheet and as soon as you get a connection, you can put it across.

2.Keyboard Shortcuts For The Entire Gmail

You might know about general keyboard shortcuts, but chances are that you might still be unaware of Gmail shortcuts. Well, to ease you out, here is how to get Gmail shortcuts – just press “Shift +?” and there you go, a window will appear displaying all the shortcuts that are enabled and disabled.

3.Customize Priority Settings: Control Who Sees What

Many people believe that Drive’s content is visible to all. That is true but you can very much control its visibility according to your priorities. You can limit your content’s visibility to the people whom you wish to see your content.

4.Surpass 25MB Attachment Limit

As you already know Gmail’s attachment size limit tops out at 25MB. But luckily we can use Google Drive to attach much bigger files. To do this, click on the small Drive icon while composing an email, and select your attachment. Also, when you receive a big attachment, you can save it straight to your Drive. There appears a save to drive option when you hover on the attachment.

5.See How Many Times Your Document Has Been Revised

Yes, this is also possible. There is array of photo cropping and editing options built in the drive. From regular crop options like square, rectangle etc, there are also a few interesting options.


6.Crop Photos

Yes, this is also possible. There is array of photo cropping and editing options built in the drive. From regular crop options like square, rectangle etc, there are also a few interesting options.

7.Track Drive Activities

If you are curious to know what all activities are going down in your Drive, just hit the “I” icon on the top right corner.

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