Chess Venue
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to chess: Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard (a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid). In a chess game, each player begins with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. 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 remove or defend it from attack, or force the opposing player to forfeit. Nature of chess Chess can be described as all of the following: * Form of entertainment – form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. ** Form of recreation – activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time. *** Form of play – voluntary, intrinsically motivated activity normally associated with recreational pleasure and enjoyment. **** Game &nda ...
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