High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Human chess is a variant of chess, often played at a Renaissance fair, where people each take on the role of a chess piece. Human chess is typically played on an outdoor field, with the squares of the board marked out on the grass. Many Human Combat Chess Matches are choreographed stage shows that are performed by actors who are trained in stage combat. A move that results in a piece being taken and then removed from the board will cause a choreographed fight to be played out, to determine whether the piece is actually taken. Alternatively, the pieces may spar, following rules that are similar to those used by the Society for Creative Anachronism. The fight can be refereed as in a wrestling match or a judo fight.