Medieval Recreation By Carter   Just sit back, relax, and enjoy the show, except, of course, if you happen to be a knight. Because once a knight's lance knocks the opponent off of his horse crowd cheers, and the other knight gets sent to his grave. Way back when, in the Medieval Era, the rich and the king and the royals would go to tournaments. These tournaments were competitions between several knights, to see who would survive the battles. The duels basically had no rules. They could be on horse or on foot, but the former caught the crowd's attention more, and certainly that of future archaeologists and artists. The king and his guests all would eat a hearty feast. If the King hasn't called for a tournament, the wealthy might be having feasts of their own, or maybe hunting. The lower class, consisting of all the peasants, doesn't really have much time to do anything exiting to make their pathetic life worthwhile. An immensely popular game during the Middle Ages, even among peasants, which still is popular today is a war game called Chess, which originated in the early 1300s. The object of the game is to corner your enemies king so that he cannot move to escape. This is called a "checkmate". And on the note of ending the game, The End   Here are some tables about the game of Chess:       Bibliography     Hearst, E. (2009). Chess. Grolier Online. Retrieved April 29, 2009 from nbk.grolier.com   Knight's Tournaments. Retrieved April 29, 2009 from middle-ages.org.uk