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Now you can play chess and basket ball with your friends on Facebook

Sep 7, 2016, 16:40 IST

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Facebook conversation can be boring at times. Earlier you and your friends would be meeting once a day or week and converse over phones. Thanks to instant messaging services and social media, it seems your friend virtually stays with you almost daily. Now when you have something to discuss its, fine but then after the talking you guys want to stay logged in but don’t really find anything that can hook you up guys.

You wish there had been a board game so you guys wouldn’t have wasted much time and concentrated on. If I say there are actually games for you, won’t you be amused! Believe me, there are.

There are chess and basket ball games that you can play on Facebook messenger.

Chess
Key word: @fbchess

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All you need to do is open any conversation on Facebook messenger and simply type @fbchess.

Instantly you will find a chess board opening up.

Your friend will get to play first.

However do note, you need commands to move your army.

“P” represents pawn, “N” is for knight, “B” is bishop, “R” is for rook, “K” is king, and “Q” is queen.

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Otherwise you can this watch this video for demo –



Basket ball
If you feel the field isn’t the end of your friendship, basket ball on Facebook is for you.

This one is damn easy.

Open messenger and send an emoji of Basketball to your friend with whom you want to play games.
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Now tap on the emoji and soon the Basketball game will get launched.

No you can simply play using your fingers to swipe the ball.

If you score, there will emojis greeting you.

Each time you score, the difficulty level goes up.

Trust me, it’s no less addictive than Pokemon Go. Alternatively you can watch this
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