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The Strategic Game of Chess
The Strategic Game of Chess

Chess is among the board games that can only be played by two people. The objective of the game is to eliminate the opponents king piece where it has no chance of moving or subduing an enemy piece without getting eliminated. The game consists of an 8 by 8 checkered game board with a total of 64 squares. It has 2 sets of 16 playing pieces one for each player composed of one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. 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. The player with light colored pieces usually white moves first and can land in an empty square or capture an enemy piece on an occupied square and would mean its removal from the game. The World Chess Federation has the task of maintaining the games rules and regulations.

The Haste of 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. It entails moving game pieces on a game board following specific game rules and the player who managed to bring all pieces at the end of the track, headquarters, or home wins. Famous of all is Backgammon, a game based on strategy and luck with a goal of removing opponents pieces, is also a game under the tables family. Movements on this game are counted on the dices roll and can be played only by two people. Alternatives of race board games are Ludo, Transformers, European Game of the Goose, and Egyptian Senet. There are some race board games that are very complex and would depend on luck, tactics, and abilities however some are very simple and played only basing the movements on the dices number.

Intelligent Deduction Board Games

Board games that require a player to make use of ones intellectual ability to make logical judgment based on a particular premise fall under the category of deductive board games. In order to win the game deductive reasoning has to be applied as its central mechanic. There are two extensive categories of deductive board games namely the abstract deductive games which do not follow a theme and the investigation deductive games in which players act out game characters. The mastermind, an abstract deductive game, is played by two which one makes the code while the other breaks it. The player who sets the code arranges the pegs on the game board in a certain pattern and the other player has to make an exact guess of the pattern used. The Cluedo is a definite example of an investigation deductive game with a murder scene setting where players get the role of a certain character and use logical reasoning to identify the person responsible for the crime. Other games that have the same genre include Black Box, Codam and Mystery Mansion.

Assisting in Cooperative Board Games

Games that encourage players to go for certain objectives such as to go against some players or against the game itself are classified as cooperative board games. It is game which focuses more on team cooperation over competition, either winning or losing as a group. To make it more challenging, events in the game do not come in succession but at random as the game goes on. In the 1980s Scotland Yard was among the first games published. It is a game where several players act as detectives or police who works cooperatively to hunt down a player acting as the criminal within the game depicting the streets of London. Horror, also produced in the 1980s, is set in the town of Arkham and players also impersonate as investigators to secure the town from aliens and monsters that pass through the gates and also to close the access. Choices of other cooperative board games are Pandemic, Lord of the Rings, and Shadow Over Camelot.

by: Jesse Temes




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