An Eternal Stalemate

An Eternal Stalemate

The position of the pieces on the chess board in the Pirates of the Caribbean queue at Walt Disney World is not an accident. Imagineer, Marc Davis, carefully arranged the pieces so that any move will result in a stalemate – thus, the skeletons have been playing the same game since 1973. Over time the pieces were accidentally moved during a minor refurbishments. Marc’s original sketches were found and the the pieces were returned to their proper positions.