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Chess is a strategic board game played between two players. Here is a general guideline of how to play:
1. Setup: The game is played on a square board divided into 8x8 grid of squares. Each player starts with 16 pieces: 1 king, 1 queen, 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, and 8 pawns.
2. Object of the game: The ultimate goal of the game is to checkmate your opponent's king. This means the king is in a position to be captured (in "check" and there is no way to move the king out of capture (mate).
3. Gameplay: Players take turns moving one piece at a time. The white player always moves first.
4. Movement: Each type of piece has a unique type of move:
- King can move in any direction, but only one square at a time.
- Queen can move any number of squares along a rank, file, or diagonal.
- Rook can move any number of squares along a rank or file.
- Bishop can move any number of squares diagonally.
- Knight moves to any of the squares immediately adjacent to it and then makes one further step at a right angle (in a 'L' shape). Knights are the only pieces that can "jump" over other pieces.
- Pawn moves forward one square, but captures diagonally. Pawns also have the options of "en passant" and promotion if they reach the opponent's end of the board.
5. Capturing: You can capture your opponent's piece by moving your piece to the square that the opponent's piece occupies.
6. Check and Checkmate: If a player's king is under threat of capture on the next move, the player is said to be in check. One cannot make a move that places or leaves their king in check. If a player's king is placed in check and there is no legal move to take it out of check, the game is over and that player is checkmated.
7. Draw: A game of chess can also end in a draw (tie) in several ways, such as "stalemate" (when the player to move is not in check, but has no legal move), the "fifty-move rule", or the "threefold repetition rule".
Remember, chess requires strategy and foresight as every move potentially changes the course of the game.