Largest Chess Piece

Chess is a mind game which actually test your mental agility.So chess can be played well only by highly trained  persons that can set them as extraordinary from the ordinary.Here is a tale to tell you  of  how the game turned out extraordinary in size  from the ordinary.The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis (CCSCSL) unveiled a chess piece that stands at  14 feet, 6 inches tall and is 6 feet wide at the base, 45 times larger than a standard chess piece.The Missouri Chess club unveiled the  largest Chess piece ie the king  which weighed 2,280 pounds.That stands as a clear testimony to amke St Louis the country's chess capital.The king piece sits on a platform, a permanent fixture in the Central West End.It's the latest effort of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis to promote chess in the city.The huge King piece serves as a monument to the rich chess culture  set  by the chess  academy.

The King piece was built in less than a month and a half.

This also comes in the wake of the U.S 2012 Chess Championship which the club  has been hosting since 2009.

The previous record of the largest chess piece  was built by Mats Allanson in Sweden in 2003.However the Allannson's piece was a mere 13.1 ft in height.The current record supersedes Allanson's record by over 1.4 times the size in height.

R. G. Ross Construction, a local company that formed the piece in a secret location in the Gravois Bluffs shopping center.The club  which entered the chess hall of fame in 2009 with the top chess player Nakamura moving in there has made St louis a chess center  from Miami.Further with the financial  support of retired Business man Sinquefield  from 2008 the later has become the most significant benefactor  of chess in America.

The piece was unveiled to kick off the 2012 U.S. and Women's Chess Championships, which take place May 8 through May 20. This is the fourth year in a row the Club has hosted the tournaments. 

This Larger than life  chess piece 'King' was set by St Louis in Missouri,United States of America on May 8,2012.