User:Dhirand

As I'm new to contributing to wikipedia through consensus, I request this forum to guide me if this is not the correct method.

I have the following suggestion in various sections of this article. Kindly check whether they can be incorporated:-

In the introductory section:

1. "Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard" -- here there is no mention of "competitive" nature of the game contrasting it with some "cooperative" games. It is mentioned only towards the end of the article.

2. "It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in homes, parks, clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments" -- it may be worth adding "schools" to this list. "tournaments" seems to be unrelated to other entries and so may have to be re-phrased.

3. "Pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces, with the objective to 'checkmate' the opponent's king"

-- "Pieces are moved.." seems more appropriate than "Pieces are used..", as if pieces are there only for that purpose.

-- Here, there is no mention of supporting one's own pieces.

-- "objective to checkmate" sounds informal; may have to be modified to "objective of checkmating".

In the Movement section:

1. "a null move is not allowed" has not been mentioned anywhere.

2. "Each chess piece has its own style of moving " or movement ?

3. "The king moves one square in any direction" - we can be more precise by saying "...in any of the eight directions" or any of the 4 orthogonal and 4 diagonal directions.

In the End of the game section:

"It is considered bad etiquette to continue playing when in a truly hopeless position" -- this statement seems vague and unnecessary, although generally understood. Nobody will continue to play unless he feels there is a chance of opponent making a blunder.

In Time Control Section:

the game is automatically lost (provided his opponent has enough pieces left to deliver checkmate). Can't we mention what we mean by "enough pieces" ?.

Strategy and Tactics :-

What about the role of intuition? Can we add that either here or under "Psychology" section?