This is the hilarious moment elderly men were engrossed in a game of chess despite rain pouring around them.

CCTV footage shows two locals sitting on the roadside while playing the board game Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, in Hebei, China.

Moments later, the downpour came, causing one of their friends standing on their side to take cover while the pair continued strategically placing the tokens on the board on August 14.

The seemingly tense standoff ended with the lad in a white shirt winning.

After his victory, he stood up and waved goodbye to his defeated mate in a black top.

Unable to accept his loss, the amateur player sat for hours amid the rainfall to study his moves and determine what went wrong.

His wife even came carrying an umbrella to fetch him, but the visibly upset man shooed her away.

He eventually reached the point of realisation that whatever moves he made, he still would have lost the game.