A special school opening ceremony is held at Jinlangyuan Primary School in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, which has a tradition of chess education, on Sept 2, 2013. Students are dressed as chess pieces on a "chessboard". [Photo/CFP]
An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.