In 1924, there was a rather unconventional chess match being played in Leningrad Square (St. Petersburg, Russia) by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, who were two popular chess masters of the 1920s.
The players used the telephone to call each other to say what the moves they had made. Then humans on horses acting as chess pieces were directed to move across a huge chessboard covering Palace Square.
Members of the Soviet Union's Red Army served as the black pieces; members of the Soviet Navy were the white pieces.
Each match lasted a laborious five hours. With relaying moves using the telephone and instructing humans to make the moves, it's a wonder it didn't last much longer than five hours.
The game was primarily designed to promote interest among Russian youth that would ultimately lead to world-wide competitions. This human chess game was so popular that it became an annual event.
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