Linda Darnell announced the moves.Hello everybody!! We are a group of chess fans who are producing new chess material.

Clagett and Rosanne Murray of MGM were the White king and queen. Bud Williams and Barbara Hale of RKO were the Black king and queen. The game was played with 'living chess pieces' as Earl Carroll girls in white bathing suits were White pieces while Latin American beauties in formal gowns were the Black pieces. The defeated Pilnik, Rossetto, Cruz, Araiza and Camarena. A Living Chess Game was won by a team of Reshevsky, Fine, Horowitz, Steiner, Adams and Borochow. 'Many movie stars attended the special events and the tournament games. Steiner also participated in the living chess game. This event was hosted by the above-mentioned Herman Steiner at his Hollywood club and utilized some actors and starlets of the time. Since this is a forum and not a blog format, I'll add some more stuff.Īnother interesting living chess exhibition was given at the Pan-Am games in 1945. The above link, plus Part II and Part III and this one called HN Pillsbury vs. The white ones after weak the black castling sacrifice firstly a rook in a threat without truce sacrifice the other rook in an interesting endgame with checkmate at the other side of the chessboard.Īctually, I put out several blog postings on living chess games. Probably this will be the move that will lose the black. After 10.Bc4, black puts his bishop on d6. In other previous moment of the same game, that it is seen from the other side of the white ones, the bishop (the one with the bishop hat) just before to retreat to c4, looks the girl that just has moved from c7 to c6. As you can see, they are paying attention about the thigh of the pawns more than the wooden pieces. In this wonderful picture you can see a game played against Herman Steiner in Los Angeles, 1933, Capablanca and Steiner, stay behind, each one with their chessboard. José Raul Capablanca also played in this way. For instance, John of Austria celebrated the Lepant victory with a chess game where his servants, with the suitable dresses for the occasion, played a game in a large room on a floor with marble black and white paving stones. Differently of normal game, where it is played with wooden pieces, in the living game it is played with people only human.

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