Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops and eight pawns.
Pieces move in different ways according to their type, and accordingly are used to attack and capture the opponent’s pieces. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent’s king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in “check”) and there is no way to move or defend it.
