How to Play Chess

Chess is this ancient game that is about at that level memorizing complex sets of moves right to a certain extent. When you're learning to play chess you're kind of training yourself almost to be a computer in some ways. There are sort of well established openings and closings and how people defend against those is what makes like how good you can memorize them. As I understand how you become good at chess I'm not good at chess so I can't say I am also but it's extremely fascinating to me.

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