Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

[1] The game is played by millions of people worldwide.

The game was derived from the Indian game chaturanga, which is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi, janggi, and shogi.

Chess reached Europe by the 9th century, due to the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.

The pieces assumed their current powers in Spain in the late 15th century; the rules were standardized in the 19th century.

This report elaborates the market size, market characteristics, and market growth of the Chess industry, and breaks down according to the type, application, and consumption area of Chess.