CHESS GAME
Chess is a strategy game played by two players on a sixty four-squared chessboard.
Each player begins with a set of sixteen pieces which is either white or black comprising of a king, a queen, two castles also called rooks, two horses also known as knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Each of the six piece types moves differently, with the most powerful being the queen and the least powerful the pawn. The main agenda is to checkmate the opponent’s king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. To this end, a player’s pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent’s pieces, while supporting each other.
In addition the game can be won by the opponent resigning voluntarily, it mostly happens when too much material is lost, or checkmate appears unavoidable. A game can also end in a draw when a checkmate cannot be reached.
A chess match requires fast thinking and problem solving on the fly because your opponent is constantly changing the parameters.
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