Chess might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think about chocolate but that is exactly what will be offered up to sweet tooths attending the forthcoming New Zealand Chocolate Festival.
Together with flowing chocolate fountains and culinary 101's from the country's finest chocolatiers and chefs, a series of special exhibition chocolate chess games will take centre stage. The participants, as members of the Wellington Chess Club, will all be of a high standard as well.
'All the playing pieces and even the chess board are made of solid chocolate and players wear cotton gloves to prevent the pieces from melting in their hands' explained, Frank Stoltenberg, the main festival organiser.
Standard chess rules apply during the exhibition matches with the one caveat that players will have to eat every piece that they take from their opponent.
Lovingly handcrafted by Rotorua based Bliss Chocolates, each individual chess piece weighs between 20 and 35 grams, so in order to win the contest a player may end up having to eat almost 400 grams of chocolate. Roughly the equivalent of two large Cadbury Dairy Milk Blocks.
'Winning a game will clearly require not only plenty of thinking but plenty of eating too! The players will truly discover what it takes to taste success' surmised Stoltenberg.
Article posted by Spencer Samaroo, Managing Director, Moo-Lolly-Bar. A true chocoholic, he also is chief editor of I Love USA Candy.
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