Without a doubt, strategy games are way better than any other kinds of games such as action games or first person shooter games. The reason I love strategy games so much is that they, aside from providing good entertainment also improves ones intellectual abilities. Strategy games improve the players decision making capabilities. Download able games and free online strategy games are rapidly gaining popularity nowadays due to the entertainment they provide and also due to the fact that they can be so easily downloaded and played.
Strategy games are widely played as board games and as virtual games. The virtual games are slowly gaining popularity over the board games due to the benefits they provide. To play a board game you need another opponent to play the game with you, with an opponent you will not be able to enjoy the game, also in strategy games it is very difficult to find an opponent that is of your intellectual level. The opponent will either be too easy or too difficult to play with. All these problems are solved in virtual games, if they are free online strategy games or download able games, in such games the slot of the opponent is filled in by the computer, what's better is that you can even choose the level of difficulty for your opponent. If you are a beginner at that game then an easy level will suit you or if you are experienced at the game you are playing and are looking for a challenge then you should choose a harder difficulty.
All strategy games are enjoyable to play but the kings of strategy games are chess and checkers. These games have been around for as long as I can remember and we have been playing them as board games. But thanks to today's computer world both of these games can be downloaded and played for free. Chess and checkers have been created in stunning 3-D graphics. The level of difficulty can be chosen by the player and it does not matter if you are a complete beginner at the game as most of the games today also teach you how to play while you play the game, explain every move and also tell you why this move was better than the other moves available to us. So in other words we get a virtual tutor who is ever patient and friendly.
Checkers is much simpler than chess, there are only 2 colors on the board one player chooses one color while his opponent chooses the other. Victory is achieved by clearing the board of the other players pieces. Chess on the other hand is much more complicated and therefore more fun to play. In chess each player controls 16 pieces; one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponents king.
People who have not yet played chess and would like to learn it should download a game today, since I already mentioned how games also help the players learn the game while they play it. Playing with the computer is also ideal for those who want to improve their game because playing with harder difficulty will really improve your game and once you can beat the computer at high difficulty levels no human player will be able to defeat you in that game.
