"Although the world of chess is considered a time of recess, with disciplined concentration and logical thinking, children can reflect on this art. Most children who have made works of art have not come to know the different versions of the game. In spite of this, the targets and the blacks of the board and the different forms of the pieces have had great influence in them. The younger child can prepare a database on the pieces as a fairy tale, while the adult usually considers a kind of abstraction as a tool to express it."

With the experience gained from the International EXPOCHESS Painting Contests organized in previous festivals, we organized an international children's drawing contest with the participation of children of the countries participating in the festival.

Children from 8 to 12 years were the protagonists of this event. The thematic was CHESS, CHILDREN OF THE WORLD (Social Chess), with free technical and in A3 format.

Being many (hundreds) participants, each participating country made a preliminary selection of the drawings made by participants selecting 8 works sent to the organization that the jury reviewed by the contest rules.

The selected works by the jury were exhibited at the Gran Hotel Lakua (Vitoria-Gasteiz) during the festival and each participating country had the option to use them as decoration during the games of the tournament, as in the lunch/dinner closing.

The best evaluated works by the jury competed for special prizes, in addition to gifts with the theme of the contest for children participants and a raffle (with surprise prizes) among attendees.

The contest was "2.0" because new technologies merged with the traditional; we opened a section on the event website where the visitors they was able to see the 8 works selected by each country as all works of the participants (of each country) creating a huge and very rich network of art with hints of different cultures.

It is noteworthy to emphasize that in the drawings one could see the differences with which the children of each country sees the world; art is a universal language. Here we leave part of the explanation that gave us in the closing of the festival the chief of the jury Mikel Garate:

"In chess and in the cosmos there is a hierarchy, a systematization, a way of organizing and of functioning, and often the capacity of the children, as well as the adults we are very rational, the children are more explicit in this aspect and at the time to express themselves, do not need to be so rational or so narrative and what we have seen is that, other adult contests have been made in other editions (from EXPOCHESS) and what we have seen is that it is a joy to see the works of children, they have a lot of creativity and rationalization, it is seen that their way of expressing themselves in the creative world is more efficient."

As in previous contests, was organized by the cultural association EXPOCHESS X.E. in cooperation with AHSI Consulting, a perfect combination of ideas and goals.