About Chess City Elista
City Chess was raised on bare Kalmyk steppe in fourteen months so that Elista could host an Olympiad. A domed aluminium hall sits at the centre; eighty-seven white cottages ring it; the ground between them is poured as a chessboard. Nothing about it is subtle, and nothing about it is dense.
The system takes that literally. An 8×8 grid carries the layout, flat colour fields carry the meaning, and the flag's yellow does the shouting. Everything is centred, because the place is.
- Origin
- Elista, Republic of Kalmykia, Russia
- Era
- built 1997–98, opened for the 33rd Chess Olympiad 1998; post-Soviet republic era 1990–2010
- Key figures
- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov · FIDE
- Movements
- post-Soviet monumental civic building · Mediterranean Revival pastiche · Kalmyk Buddhist revival
Chess City Elista design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
OswaldHeadings
PT SansBody
PT MonoMono
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