How to Play a Game of Chess
Chess is an interesting game. It is not easy to play a game of chess. It takes much intelligence, strategy and mental endurance to play chess. It is an international game which is played all over the world. It is also widely played in Bangladesh. Here chess tournaments are regularly held. For playing chess we need a chessboard. A chessboard has a matrix of eight rows and eight columns. The rows and columns intersect themselves in 64 cells. The cells are coloured alternatively in white and black i.e. a cell next to a white cell must be coloured black horizontally and vertically. There are two sets of stakes, one set is coloured white and the other set is black. In each set, there is one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops and eight pawns. The stakes have specific rules to manipulate. There are two players in a chess game. One has to take white and the other has to take black. The object of the game is to manipulate the stakes in such a way as to checkmate the opponent king. Checkmate is a condition when the king is under immediate attack and he has no way to save himself or remove the condition.