Chessboard / PassportFeaturing places such as the gardens of Versailles, France, Ceausescu’s defunct presidential palace in Bucarest, Romania, and the oracle’s temple site of Delphi, Greece, a web of historical connections is woven around the Principality of Sealand. Chess positions include textbook classics such as ‘rambling rook’, ‘perpetual check’ and ‘double check’, as well as phenomenal match results like chess computer DeepBlue96 defeating Gary Kasparov, and Kasparov beating the world in a 4-month chess match over the internet. When understanding Sealand as a place of cultural – historical site, it is necessarily linked to other places that however cannot be logically ‘produced’ by Sealand’s own history.