A square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard.
Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The game is to checkmate the opponent's king, it’s object whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way to remove or defend it from attack on the next move.