| − | '''Chess''' is a [[conservative]], intellectually challenging [[board game]] for two players. Based purely on skill and merit without any element of chance, chess has long been one of the most popular games in the world, and today chess is played by upwards of 800 million people worldwide. Chess sharpens the mind, improves decision-making skills, helps overcome [[addiction]], drives out [[anxiety]], and builds character. Promoters of chess include [[Benjamin Franklin]]<ref>https://phillybowtietours.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/benjamin-franklin-and-chess/</ref> and [[Thomas Jefferson]]. | + | '''Chess''' is an intellectually challenging, [[conservative]] [[board game]] of [[chivalry]] for two players. Based purely on skill and merit without any element of chance, chess has long been one of the most popular games in the world, and today chess is played by upwards of 800 million people worldwide. Chess sharpens the mind, improves decision-making skills, helps overcome [[addiction]], drives out [[anxiety]], and builds character. Promoters of chess include [[Benjamin Franklin]]<ref>https://phillybowtietours.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/benjamin-franklin-and-chess/</ref> and [[Thomas Jefferson]]. |
| | The goal of the game is to place the opposing king into ''checkmate'', that is, a position in which the king is under attack but cannot escape. | | The goal of the game is to place the opposing king into ''checkmate'', that is, a position in which the king is under attack but cannot escape. |