Chess City
About Chess City
Chess City is a large complex devoted to chess and chess competitions located east of Elista, Kalmykia, in Russia. The neighborhood-size development consists of a central, four-story domed City Chess Hall surrounded by an Olympic-style village of Californian-Mediterranean Revival Style architecture. The site has a conference center, public swimming pool and a museum of Kalmyk Buddhist art. The complex features sculptures and artwork devoted to chess, including a statue of Ostap Bender, a fictional character of popular books written by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov, who proposed the creation of a world chess capital. The complex has been used to host visiting dignitaries like the Dalai Lama.
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In 1998, to host the 33rd Chess Olympiad, he built Chess City, which has a chess museum, a large open-air chess board, and a museum of Buddhist art. Because there are a lot of Buddhists living in Elista.
from 171: No Such Thing As A Half-Ape Vampire, 2017-06-30 at 00:36:18 · read transcript
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