Orderliness games such as a Puzzle V. Test games such as a Quiz Board games compress and miniaturize reality. Therefore, people can adjust the significance of a given game to their own conceptions of reality at any given time. It is, perhaps, this flexibility, that led first to the creation and later to the dissemination of board games. This may, indeed, be the key to their survival to this day. The first aim of the game is to immobilize or checkmate the central piece, the strategic aim.
Representative piece is the king.
The second aim is to capture other pieces and to strengthen the player's own power, the enrichment aim. Here the officers are the representatives. The third aim is to promote the pawns, the run aim. One may deduce by the past and present structure of chess that it was born by unifying different types of games older and simpler than chess itself. Merels, Weiqi and other ancient games so simple in their structure.