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Checkmate, Mongolian style

By Wang Kaihao and Yang Fang in Abag Banner, Inner Mongolia | China Daily | Updated: 2013-07-02 06:19

Checkmate, Mongolian style

Top: Norbu, 60, works on a Mongolian chess piece called shatar, an intangible cultural heritage of the Inner Mongolian autonomous region. Above: A shatar set made by Norbu. Photos by Wang Kaihao / China Daily

It is like chess, but this Mongolian cousin of the Western board game is different.

Checkmate, Mongolian style

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