The aim of the “Urban Chess” Game is to both reveal insecurities of pedestrians while walking during nighttime in the center of Nicosia, and to show ways to cope up with them. Such insecurities may arise due to the presence of the buffer zone, to poorly lit areas, due to lack of urban activities or even due to the presence of unfamiliar ones to the pedestrians. The game has two interrelated parts: the table chess part in an interior space (Ground Floor of the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus) and the navigation part through the streets of the city interacting with night activities. Each of the two teams that play the game, assign an ambassador to play the chess where the rest of the group begins wandering in the city based on a series of challenge cards. The navigation areas for the game are based on a mapping of the city done by the Game Design Team, where the night rhythms are documented and the information enriches the challenge cards. The destinations are located across the divide encouraging the players to cross over. The challenge cards are grouped by their degree of difficulty, (easy, medium, and hard). By achieving the challenges the on-going chess game is “disturbed” through a continuous feed-back by mobile phone that takes place between the teammates and their ambassador chess player: gaining or losing a movement on the chessboard, gaining or losing a pion, or even playing the opponent’s piece when her/his teammates achieve a “hard” challenge). In other words, the interaction with the night urban activities becomes an external agent of disruption of the chess session. The game ends when one of the two chess players wins in a predesignated number of sessions. By that time, the players hopefully, got the chance to become more acquainted with night activities they don’t normally come in contact with in their everyday life.​