Chess Game pleasures of thousands - an ancient Indian proverb says. Yes, with this thought in chess there is no disagreement. But what is chess? sports, science, art - there really is no single opinion. Some consider chess sports, other science, and some art. And they in turn right. In chess, there are features of all these qualities. Many consider chess chess as a sport because there is a struggle. Fighting different - the psychological, the fight against plans, control the speed (especially in time trouble). Science, because chess is the theory and the study of this theory requires a scientific approach. Systematization, analysis, evaluation of all these features for science. And the art because she believed chess is a product of two creative players. It does not matter who lost and who won. Create beautiful Multiport combinations or complex positional struggle, after which one party gains the upper hand. These parties did not take him little pleasure. What attracts people in chess? The most important thing - chess endless. In chess, there are no dogmas, but there are rules of a general nature which we can read in any textbook. But there is a clause that these rules are not a dogma. And there are exceptions. The total number of possible positions in chess is enormous. Fifth World Chess Champion 1935-1937, Professor of Mathematics, Max Euwe as rated by the number of possible positions: if 12 million players continually worked to razyskivaniem best moves in every conceivable position, spending every position on the 0.1 seconds that they would not be enough and trillion centuries to explore all possible positions. Another feature of chess in their accessibility. That is, for chess do not need anything else, except the figures and boards do not have large arenas, extensive grounds, any special climatic conditions as in other sports. In our current computer age, no game is not compatible with your computer more than chess and checkers. Let football. There are also computer games in football - very interesting and a lot. They play, but they do not add one skill, but all remained virtually. Man, good playing football on a computer that can play poorly on the real field. But with chess all in a different way - what you see and play on the monitor, the same can see and play on a wooden board. Determination of chess in different textbooks are different. The authors provide a common, but somewhat different definitions. For example, V. Pozharskii gives this explanation Chess is a game, which involves two players. They are called partners, rivals, enemies. A. Sokolsky - The chess game is a duel of two opponents. One plays the black pieces and pawns of another white X-R Capablanca - Chess is played on a board which has 64 fields and 8 series. On both sides involved in 16 pieces. At present, attempt to make chess more quickly by reducing the time to think. But the less time the less opportunity to show themselves in the chess game. Some of the shortening of the time, others against. But this means that the interest in chess is weakened? This, too, have different opinions. There is a claim that the sunset Chess in the offing. Others contend that chess will exist for a long time. In contrast to this view, I would like to put words by M. Euwe mentioned above. The second group comprises a large army of grandmasters and amateurs. I personally am to 2 group, and I think that chess has a great future I do not understand how can end the Infinite.