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Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard , a square checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs , online, by correspondence , and in tournaments . Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces : one king , one queen , two rooks , two knights , two bishops , and eight pawns , each of these types of pieces moving differently. Pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces. The object of the game is to ' checkmate ' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. In addition to checkmate, the game can be won by the voluntary resignation of one's opponent, which may occur when too much material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable.

