Marostica (Italian pronunciation: [maˈrɔstika]; Venetian: Maròstega [maˈɾɔsteɡa]), is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy.

After the Second World War, some 20 years later, the artist Mario Mirko Vucetich [it] who authored the work entitled “The Chess Game,” in which the original legend is memorialized, designed the new elements of the festival.

During the presentation once one of the two knights/suitors have made a move, a crier calls out the movement for the living chess piece; these orders are still given out in the "Serenissima Republic of Venice" dialect.

The two noblemen, Rinaldo D'Angarano and Vieri da Vallanora, fell in love with Lionora, the daughter of the local lord, Taddeo Parisio.

The Lord also decides the challenge would be honoured by an exhibition of armed men, foot-soldiers and knights, with fireworks, dances and music, which makes the approximately 20 minute chess game the anchor of a festival of epic proportions.