May 02
Every player has 16 chess pieces composed of the members of a royal court. They are comprised of a king, a queen, 2 rooks, 2 knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Each piece has set rules that rule the direction of their movement. The object of the game is to capture the opponent’s pieces and to at last force the other player’s king into submission. Chessboards and the pieces can and have been created from many materials.
While it is not definitive which culture invented the game, many countries attribute this great game’s beginnings to the land of India.
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May 4th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
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