Chess - Board Game

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An elegant and infinitely complex strategy game which exercises your ability at planning long term goals, recognizing villainous intent, setting and avoiding traps, creating defensive and offensive structures, and keeping cool and logical; unless fiery punitive retribution happens to be part of your strategy. Unusual in board games in that chance plays no part in the outcome; the winner is determi... read more

The Game of Kings. Patience, Foresight, Strategy are all key to playing this game.

At Uni, we had (dare I say it) a Chess League Table in my house. The 5 of us would play each other twice and gain points for victories and piece differences. Its that kind of competition that makes the game more lucrative.

This game will be around forever, so you might aswell love it an... read more

While gameplay is limited to one mode, the graphics on this game make up for that. Possible surpassing even the best CGI, the rendering of chess is practically photo-realistic. There is also a substantial amount of mini-games, inculding, but certainly not limited to, eating, sleeping and my personal favourite, breathing. Recommended

Description: Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence, in tournaments and informally. The game is played on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight square. At the start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black pieces) controls sixteen Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence, in tournaments and informally.

The game is played on a square chequered chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight square. At the start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black pieces) controls 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 it from attack on the next move. ... (more) (less)