Live human chess game at Nha Trang Sea Festival
VOV.VN - This year at the Nha Trang-Khanh Hoa Sea Festival the organizers are holding a Live Human Chess Game as one of the main attractions.
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Human chess is a form of chess in which people take the place of pieces. |
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It is modelled after the costumed human chess game has been staged every two years on the second week in September in the Italian city of Marostica, near Venice ever since 1923. |
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| The game commemorates a legendary chess game played in 1454 by two young knights to settle which of them would court the lady that both had fallen in love with. |
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This year 50 contestants from the south central and central highland regions join the game. |
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Students choreograph martial art acts when they are required to move. |
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