It would feature clusters of hotels built in the shape of giant chess pieces, 16 black and 16 white hotels, sitting upon a 64-hectare plot of land that would landscaped to resemble a chessboard.
At the time of the announcement, Ilyumzhinov said the 'chessboard' would be configured according to what 'game was chosen as a blueprint'.
"So far we plan either to copy a Bobby Fischer game or possibly one of (Russian chess master Garry) Kasparov's," he told journalists at the project's press conference.
As you'd expect, the hotels would be a different rating according to their designation; for example the 50-storey pawn-shaped hotels would have offered 3 to 4-star class accommodation; rooks, knights and bishops would be 60-storey 5-star hotels, while the four super-luxury hotels representing kings and queens would tower 70 storeys high. The complex would also house the headquarters of the International Chess Association., resturants that has chess themes and sports bars that has chess torenmetn and lots of chess stuff and shops.
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