Chess

Chess identically with the sport that is very exhausting, not in tired physically, but tired psyche and mind. People who are too lazy to think clearly can not be comfortable to play chess. But there are also people who would sit for hours to play chess.

Not like the other sports, chess rely on brainpower than muscle.
Chess trains us to be more confident, patient, strategy skills, as well as the appropriate decision-making and limited by time. As we know, every step in the calculation of chess there, why do people do this and that.

Chess is a game played two players. This game can train the brain activity because we will find the strategy to be a winner. Before the match, chess players would choose beans that he played. There are two colors to differentiate chess pieces or seeds, such as black and white. Holders of the white pieces  start first, which in turn is followed by black pieces holder by turns until the game is completed.

                In Indonesia, Chess is Catur. In sansekerta language Catur is four (4). So, Chess have four corner. The game took place on a board consisting of 8 column and 8 rows of black and white (or light and dark) is Intermittent. The game starts with 16 pieces on each side, which was composed specifically lined on each side of the chessboard are face to face. One piece can only occupy a single plot. At the forefront of each line - there are 8 pawns, followed behind the two forts, two horses (in English called knight-warrior), two elephants (in English called a bishop, the bishop), a minister or a queen or ster, as well as a king (In Indonesia called Skak).

The purpose of this game is to reach checkmate position. This could happen if the King is threatened and no way to escape to another plot. Not always the game ended in defeat, because it could happen anyway, or mussels (remis) in a series of events where both parties could no longer continue the game because they can not reached checkmate.

Chess principles also used in Bali. The usual statue in front of the house, always use a glove like a chessboard. Black and white. There are significance why chess is used as a traditional principle in Bali.