Chess is my favorite historical game to play, and sometimes prefer playing it as oppose to playing video games. I learned how to play when I was nine-years-old at my cousin Connor's house and instantly fell in love with the game. It involves a lot of thinking and strategy, and you must value both yours and your opponent's every move. The game is played on a 8 by 8 square grid board and each player has 16 pieces. One player normally has a dark-colored set, and the other player usually has a light-colored set. Each set consists of 8 pawns, 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, 1 queen, and 1 king. The player sets up their board on the back two rows (the rows closest to them). The front row has 8 pawns positioned side-by-side across the board. The back row then has a rook on both corners, a knight next to each of the rooks, and a bishop next to each of the knights. Then a king is placed on the set color (dark or light), and the queen is placed next to it. The point of the game is to eliminate the opposing player's pieces, more importantly the king, by moving your pieces into the same spots, and overtaking their position. Pawns can only move 1 space (except for their first move where they can move 2 spaces) vertically, and must move diagonally to beat an opposing piece. Rooks can move unlimited space either vertically or horizontally, and bishops can move unlimited spaces diagonally. Knights move in an L pattern where they must first move two spaces horizontally or vertically, and then one space perpendicular to that route. The queen can move unlimited space in any direction, and the king can move only one space in any direction. The queen is the most valued piece on the board because it has the most possibilities for movement. Players play the game by alternating choosing only one piece to move for each turn. When a player can strike the opposing player's king it is a check, and the opposing player must move their king out of the check position. When it is no longer possible for the king to escape the check position it is a checkmate, and the end of the game. Who ever can get a checkmate on the other player's king first wins.
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