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Living chess set featuring 32 actors turns heads at London’s ChessFest
ChessFest claims to be the UK’s largest one-day chess event.
![A living chess set, with 32 professional actors taking on the role of the chess pieces, take part in ChessFest, the UK’s largest one-day chess event, at Trafalgar Square, central London. Picture date: Sunday July 17, 2022.](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/07/17/21/6242a4fca9b3f695ef0e449851fd6dfcY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjU4MTY5MzI2-2.67927848.jpg?quality=75&width=982&height=726&auto=webp)
A living chess set, with 32 professional actors taking on the role of the chess pieces, take part in ChessFest, the UK’s largest one-day chess event, at Trafalgar Square, central London. Picture date: Sunday July 17, 2022.
(PA Wire)
A group of 32 professional actors turned heads in Trafalgar Square by featuring in a living chess set.
Sunday’s performance in London was part of ChessFest, which claims to be the UK’s largest one-day chess event.
![A living chess set, with 32 professional actors taking on the role of the chess pieces, take part in ChessFest (Victoria Jones/PA)](https://static.independent.co.uk/2022/07/17/21/55baf3276f6e7f740539bd638f26f146Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNjU4MTY5NTkx-2.67927785.jpg?quality=75&width=982&height=726&auto=webp)
A living chess set, with 32 professional actors taking on the role of the chess pieces, take part in ChessFest (Victoria Jones/PA)
(PA Wire)
Organisers said the living chess pieces would perform a re-enactment of Bobby Fischer’s game three victory against Boris Spassky at the 1972 World Chess Championship, marking its 50 year anniversary.
They also planned to revisit a game between former world champion Garry Kasparov and his robotic nemesis Deep Blue.
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