1970

 

RUSSIA - U.R.S.S.

July 07, 1970 Commemoration of the match out in space. The First Correspondence Chess Game Played in Space, Played as a consultation game in July, 1970, Vitaly Sevestianov and Adrian Nikolayev played chess from their Soviet Soyuz 9 spacecraft against two other cosmonauts at the Center of Flight Operations in Moscow. The game lasted 6 hours. At the time, Nikolayev was the Director of Cosmonaut training.