by checkermate August 07, 2008
by chess freak April 09, 2005
by Garyvision August 31, 2017
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to be derived from the Indian game chaturanga sometime before the 7th century. Chaturanga is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi (Chinese chess), janggi (Korean chess), and shogi (Japanese chess). Chess reached Europe by the 9th century, due to the Umayyad conquest of Hispania. The pieces assumed their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the modern rules were standardized in the 19th century.
by Supportivejenny March 15, 2020
"What did you do at the party; anything sexual?"
"No way, mother, we just played chess a little and took speed."
"No way, mother, we just played chess a little and took speed."
by Awesomeness. March 08, 2005
by amkv123 February 21, 2010
The person who made the first chess board and pieces made the queen the most powerful piece on the board to make the game difficult, since people would lose interest in it quickly if anybody could do well at it the first time they played without trying.
The queen is the most powerful piece in chess because the queen can do things no other piece can do, the queen has always had more freedom than any any other chess piece. Think of what you could get done in chess if more pieces had the freedom to make as many different moves as the queen makes. Theres too many people that think life is exactly like chess or monopoly, that it's all a game for everybody.
by Solid Mantis October 10, 2020