Interesting Way to Celebrate International Women's Day

March 8th is International Women's Day, and one women's group in Russia is celebrating in a most interesting way:

MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti) - Russian women in the Volga region city of Nizhny Novgorod are set to play chess using men as pawns, rooks and other figures on March 8.

March 8 is International Women's Day, celebrated as a national holiday in Russia and several ex-Soviet countries.

The young men from local universities who have volunteered to take part in the unusual chess matches will wear specially-designed masks and gowns as the women command them around the chess board. The board has been drawn out on a large 'carpet' which will be rolled out on a city square on Saturday.

"We had difficulties in finding men to volunteer. It was hard to convince young men to be under [women's] control for the games," a spokesman for the organizing committee said, adding that he hoped the event would increase young people's interest in "intellectual pastimes."

Those Russian women know how to have a good time!

via Susan Polgar Chess Blog

Comments

[wil]

I just discovered that the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, "one of the world's premier centers for chess research and outreach," is in my podunk hometown: Lubbock, Texas. Weird.

[Indrani Ghose]

Very interesting way indeed!

Happy Women's Day to you and the Russian friends.

[Ayesha]

Hello Sylvia..,

Day to cheer up all the female buddies around the world..!
Good post..!!
Happy Women's Day to you too...!

[neha]

hi,

Its very interesting game.well women will command men,dats the way marriage also works.

[Sylvia]

Wil, you're a Texan?! Do you have the accent?

Happy Women's Day to you, Indrani, Ayesha, and Neha! It's nice to have visitors from the other side of the globe!

[wil]

Well, as the saying goes, I wasn't born in Texas, but I got there as fast as I could (tongue planted firmly in cheek).

But seriously, I did spend many of my formative years in Texas. Some people say I have the accent, some don't. I suppose I do have a subtle Texas twang.