In the town of Marostica in Vicenza, Italy, a game of chess is performed with actual human beings.
Do you know: This tradition of a human chessboard goes back all the way to 1451.
The human chess game originated with the lord of the Marostica castle. When two knights were in love with his daughter, the Lord created this game of chess so as to avoid bloodshed and declared that the winner would marry his daughter. However, in this game all the pieces of the chessboard were actual human beings. In memory of this gesture, a special game of human chess is organized every year.
