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Chess is a board strategy game between two players. It is played on the "chessboard." A diagram of 64 squares alternately colored black and white. They are arranged horizontally and vertically in dimensions 8×8. Each player has 16 pieces at their disposal: a king, a queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops and eight pawns. Each one of the six types of pieces performs different moves on the chessboard.

Generally as a sport it constitutes an exciting way to test the mental powers of the players. It is played on equal terms applying the rules of the game with accuracy and skill. Essentially chess is a military game of equal forces carried out 'on paper' (chessboard). Apart from kings and popes, notable admirers of this game have been eminent personalities of letters, sciences and arts. Among them were Cervantes, Voltaire, Diderot, Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, etc.

The most important thing about this game is not so much victory over the opponent as the quality of the victory. The excitement lies in those moves that aim at subsequent moves as part of a plan, the clever combinations, the subtle maneuvers, etc., which are appreciated in 'chess thinking' perhaps with greater pleasure than that given by 'static' books, paintings, and other artistic works. Hence the most beautiful games that have been recorded are printed in books and magazines of the genre, with analyses and other possibilities, bestowing particular admiration.

In general chess cultivates and develops important virtues such as discipline, the training of will and endurance, development of memory, alertness, intelligence, logical thinking, etc., or as they used to say 'the sharpening of the mind'.

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