# Chess

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Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on an 8x8 grid, where players move differently-powered pieces with the goal of checkmating the opponent's king. It's one of the world's oldest and most popular games, appreciated for its blend of tactics, strategy, and psychological depth, and is played both casually and competitively at amateur and grandmaster levels. Many people list chess as a hobby reflecting an interest in analytical thinking, pattern recognition, and long-term planning.

Related skills: [Critical Thinking](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/critical-thinking), [Strategic Thinking](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/strategic-thinking), [Go](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/go), [Sudoku](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/sudoku)

## Open roles requiring Chess (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.