Games and Their Institutions

We had a dicussion in class recently about the rules of games , here is the link to the Bernard Suits article which covers the topic in depth. Suits argues that a game like chess cannot have a prelusory goal, i.e. that chess "can't be described before or independently of, any game of which it may be, or come to be, or come to be, a part." i.e. it can't be achieved outside of a game of chess.

It is an intersesting topic as I like other people would of though that for a game like chess it would be pretty obvious that it had a prelusory goal and that all the rules of chess were easily defined. However there are other rules which need to be defined besides the obvious rules like
"the object of the game to immobilize an opponent's king" but according to Suits you cannot say in an effort to dissasociate checkmate from chess that checkmate consists of objects of a certain description pinning a king in accordance with the rules of chess because you could just place these pieces to pin the king to achieve checkmate so it isn't possible to define a prelusory goal for chess without introducing more means limiting rules, therefore the definition of a prelusory goal is too narrow for a game of chess as it is for many other games.