Chess is a two player strategy board game.
About 70% of the adult population (US, UK, Germany, Russia, India) has played chess at some point in their lives, 605 million adults play chess regularly. Chess is a two player strategy board game where the aim is to move different types of playing piece, each with a prescribed set of possible moves, around a chequered square board trying to capture the opponents ‘king’ piece. Today there are over 2,000 identifiable variants of the game . Mathematically there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the Observable Universe. It is possible to checkmate an opponent in chess in two moves . The oldest living Grandmaster is Yuri Averbakh who celebrated his 100th birthday in May 2022.