Play Chess Anytime

Play Chess Anytime is a board game usually played between two players. It is played on a square board, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one queen and one king. The goal of the game is for each player to try and checkmate the king of the opponent. Checkmate is a threat to the opposing king which no move can stop and It ends the game.

During the game the two opponents take turns to move one of their pieces to a different square of the board. One player (say White) has pieces of a light color; the other player (say Black) has pieces of a dark color. There are rules about how pieces move, and about taking the opponent's pieces off the board. The player with white pieces always makes the first move. Because of this, White has a small advantage, and wins more often than Black in tournament games.