Well, at 80 meters on each side, you can’t really call it a board, right? Norway’s candidate for world’s largest chessboard, already accepted by Guinness World Records, is nearly as long on each side as an American football field.
Constructed on a farm field in the town of Brekstad, the board was used to host a match between Grand Masters Simen Agdestein of Norway and Niklas Hushenbeth of Germany. Agdestein won.
The players were positioned high above the field on cherry pickers, and the pieces on the field were played by local residents, who were fortunate because the game ended just before a drenching rain came.
Agdestein told Norwegian broadcasting that “it was a bit unusual using an enormous board and a bit special, but it was a fantastic event. We were lifted very high up, so we had a good view. But to be honest, I mostly had the positions of the pieces in my head.”
