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Whether you want to learn chess to play casual games with your friends or to enter competitions, in this article you can learn all the information you need to know about the royal game.

The goal in chess is to checkmate your opponent's king, leaving it trapped with no safe moves. The king can only move one square at a time in any direction—forward, backward, sideways, or diagonally.

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