Chess

Chess is a board game for two players. 

It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance.

It is played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. 

The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. 

An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. 

The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. 

There are also several ways a game can end in a draw.

The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancestor to similar games like xiangqi and shogi—in seventh-century India. 

After its introduction in Persia, it spread to the Arab world and then to Europe. 

The modern rules of chess emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century.