The objective of the game is to ultimately trap or beat your opponent’s king by preventing your opponent’s king to move or make countermove in any direction possible and get away from your attack known as check or checkmate. If you checkmate your opponent, the game is over and you win. You also win if your opponent decides to resign or forfeit the game if he or she feels that he or she is in hopeless position and it is only a matter or time before you attack him or her checkmate. If both players happen to have a few pieces remaining on board and neither of them has a much chance of winning or if a player whose turn to move and cannot move legally but it is not a check then it is called a draw.

At the start of the game, the white always begins first. The players cannot refuse to a move and must take his or her turn. One player and one move at a time only. In tournaments, it is considered a good manner and a rule to move the peace you have touched. You can capture and take your opponent’s piece off the board thus removing it to the game and making it for your opponent to have a lesser defense.

The first piece that is usually moved is the pawn. It is the weakest pieces on board because of the restriction of their movements. They are like soldiers lined up in front of the commanders. The first move of the pawn can take two squares forward. After this the pawn can only move one square at a time. It can be moved forward only and not backwards. The pawn can also be promoted to a queen or the rook or bishop or a knight or whatever you need during the game. You can make all your pawn a queen if you like since the queen is the most powerful piece on the chess board. Once it reaches the very end of your opponent’s side of the board you can promote your pawn and be whatever you like it to be except the king. The Knight is the next piece. It is somewhat equal in strength with the bishop. A knight moves in L-pattern in any direction. It is the only piece that can jump over to other pieces and can capture a piece in any square it lands on. The bishop can move diagonally and can move until another piece blocks its way. The two pieces of bishops each player have are positioned on the white square and the other is on the dark square and can move diagonally in that color square. The rook is much stronger than the knight and the bishop. Unlike the bishop that moves diagonally, the rook moves in a straight line until it is blocked by the other piece. It can either land on a white square or on the black square. The most powerful piece is the queen that can move to all the different directions except the L-move so it can easily capture and make checkmate attack on the king. And lastly, the king, which is the most important piece in the game. The kings’ move is only a square at a time in any direction. It must be guarded for if your king is checked or you are checkmate then the game is over and you lost.

Chess really allows your mind to think better and to think of the best strategic plan for you to checkmate the opponent’s king. This is one of the best mind stimulator games you could ever play.