subject: The Learners Useful Directives When Studying And Participating Several Amusing Games Using Boards [print this page] The Strategic Game of Chess The Strategic Game of Chess
Chess is among the board games that can only be played by two people. Every players goal is to checkmate the king piece of the opponent where it has no room for moving without being attacked or captured. The game includes a checkered chessboard with 64 squares in an 8 by 8 grid. Every player has 16 pieces for him to play the game which comprise of two rooks, eight pawns, two knights, one king, two bishops, and one queen. The players take alternate turns in moving their pieces and it should be noted that only one piece can be moved at a time with an exception on castling where movements of two pieces are allowed. It is a practice that the players with light colored pieces make the opening move and the corresponding piece can land on an empty square or on an enemy occupied provided that the piece can capture the opponents. The rules and regulations of the game chess is maintained by the World Chess Federation.
Participating in Two Player Board Games
A number of board games are created to be played completely by only two individuals and never more. These sorts of board games can be appropriate for playing with your wife, friend, companion or buddy. The Abalone is a strategy board game played by each player having two sets of fourteen marbles each in a hexagonal game board with 61 spaces. The goal of the game is to push the opponents marbles out of the hexagonal boards edges. Another game is the Chinese Checkers and is played on a star-shaped board by moving the pieces to the opposite end of the players base. A game set on an 8 by 8 game board, the Othello, aims to preserve the most number of pieces in the entire game and the player with the most number of pieces left is deemed winner. Alternatives of games that can be played by two players are Suguroku, Stratego, Kamisado, Obsession, Backgammon, Plateau, Cross and Circle, Downfall, and Checkers.
Party Board Games
Cranium is also called The Game for the Whole Brain, played by 4-16 individuals. Each player must possess a multitude of talents and skills since the game has many activities involved. Published and made known to the public on 1998 by inventors, Richard Tait and Whit Alexander. The game is played by dividing the players from two to four teams where each team has a mover which is initially set-up on the Planet Cranium start space and the order of the game starts with the player whose birthday is coming up and goes around to the next team in a counterclockwise manner. In order to win the game, the players must perform well in the following four sections of the game namely: Word Worm asking players to define, spell out words, guess words, and unscramble words; creative cat asks players to draw or sculpt the clues using clay; trivia questions are asked in Data Head; and Start performer where players hum a song, impersonating personalities or act out clues.
The Speedy Race Board Games
Race board games are among the earliest board game invented which require each player to compete against each other and be the first player to attain the goal. Moving the pieces on the board under certain rules until the player succeeds in bringing the pieces at the end of the goal or finish line is the game mechanic. The most popular among the race games is Backgammon, also a member of the tables family, is a game of luck and strategy which has an objective of removing all of the opponents pieces off the board. Played by two individuals, movements can be made in accordance with the roll of the dice. Alternatives of race board games are Ludo, Transformers, European Game of the Goose, and Egyptian Senet. Some race board games can be played with utmost simplicity as tossing the dice and making a move or could be a very complex game involving luck, skills, and strategy combined.
