50 th - anniversary Space - Earth chess match between cosmonauts on ISS , grandmaster in RussiaRussian chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin plays a game of chess marking the 50 th anniversary of the first historic Space - Earth chess match at the main hall of the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow , Russia , 09 June 2020 . The Space - Earth duel between Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station ( ISS ) and Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin ? a rapid and blitz world champion and two - time winner of the World Team Championship as a member of the Russian national team ? commemorates 50 years since the first - ever extraterrestrial chess game was played on 09 June 1970 between the crew aboard Soyuz - 9 and Roscosmos personnel in the USSR . EPA / YURI KOCHETKOV ▶ 코로나 19 속보 는 네이버 연합뉴스 에서 [ 구독 클릭 ] ▶[ 팩 트 체크 ] 뜨거운 감자 ' 비동 의 간음죄 '▶ 제보 하 기