These chess games where all the pieces are made of ice are played between teams in Russia and Britain. It is played out on a video-linked match. The gigantic checkerboards are 64 square meters in size. One of the team is located in Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow while the other team is located in Trafalgar Square in London. Each team has just 30 seconds to make each move as the sculptures steadily melted. One of the pieces, a king fashioned to resemble a Kremlin tower, had already partially melted away before the game began, losing its emblematic Soviet star. The game, in which Russian and British chess masters Anatoly Karpov and Nigel Short faced off alongside celebrities and budding chess talents, ended in a draw.
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Tags: Chess | Ice
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