After seven years of research, the scientists explained the reasons for the popularity of chess and high skill of players among the deer farmers of Siberia - Altai, Evenchia, Chukotka, Timyr.

During the study, it was discovered that all, without exception, deer farmers that the researchers met played chess. Pauses in the work between the reindeer of deer flocks are arranged for a chess game. It usually starts after lunch and tea.

The name of the game sounds like "shatra", play must be at a very good level. There are frequent cases when deer growers played chess players with high discharges, - said the specialist.

Field research has revealed the identification of deer battalions on the chessboard not with military battles, as in the inhabitants of cities, but with the daily work of deer farmers, where it is important to capture the smallest details of the weather, to predict where the deer will go, where predators can appear and where it is better to place traps on them.