Paul Keres memorial

On Tõnismägi in Tallinn, a monument shaped like a chessboard honours Paul Keres, the great Estonian grandmaster, created in 1991 for his 85th birthday by the sculptor Ekke Väli with architects Andres Siim and Hanno Kreis. On a 12-by-12-metre platform of grey and reddish granite stand forms that recall chess pieces: Keres's bronze bust on a 3.4-metre pink granite column, a black granite slab with his bronze autograph, a boulder, a long granite bench and a thuja tree. When a new building rose on the plot, the monument was dismantled in 2017 and rebuilt in its old form a few dozen metres away in 2018.