Chess mammoth winner | Chess news Chessdom.bg
Unusual prize awaits the winner of the match in Sochi for the title World Champion. It turns out that in addition to the prize money for the winner of the meeting, the organizers have prepared a special gift. It is a unique chess, all figures of which are made of mammoth bone ... To create white pieces served ancient giant tusks found in Yakutia and for black pieces of mammoth tusks found near Krasnoyarsk. Antiquity of the two finds are estimated at 40-45 thousand years.
Chess news and events from Chessdom 2013
Unusual prize awaits the winner of the match in Sochi for the title World Champion. It turns out that in addition to the prize money for the winner of the meeting, the organizers have prepared a special gift. It is a unique chess, all figures of which are made of mammoth bone ... To create white pieces served ancient giant tusks found in Yakutia and for black pieces of mammoth tusks found near Krasnoyarsk. Antiquity of the two finds are estimated at 40-45 thousand years.
Chess news and events from Chessdom 2013
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