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The lady's hand goes to the guy with the bigger brain: Machismo turned on its head.
Rather than calling for a high-octane sword duel to win the hand of his daughter, Lord Taddeo Parisio decreed her two suitors must instead play a game of chess. After a few hours of rollicking entertainment, the winner would take home his older daughter, and the loser his younger, Oldrada. In true Italian fashion, this 1454 match has become bigger and more ostentatious in modern day with life-sized chess pieces re-enacting the game in the piazza outside where the original took place.
