What is chess

Chess is a board game between two opponents in which each player has 16 movable pieces that are placed on a board divided into 64 squares or squares. In its competitive version, it is considered a sport, although nowadays it clearly has a social, educational and therapeutic dimension.

It is played on a grid board with 8×8 squares (also called squares), alternating black and white colors, which constitute the 64 possible positions between which the pieces move during the course of the game. At the beginning of the game each player has sixteen pieces: a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks and eight pawns.