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07-02-2015, 06:49 PM (This post was last modified: 07-02-2015 07:38 PM by ViperSniper.)
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Chessboxing
Whose heard of it? People often reference chess to boxing but found out that the two combined is an official sport. Very odd..

"Watching people play chess probably isn’t on your list of the most exciting things to do on a Friday night. The idea sounds really boring, and you would probably want to get up and leave after 2 minutes.

However, if you’re at a chess boxing match, and you wait just 2 minutes longer, the opponents will start punching each other.

Chessboxing is a hybrid fighting sport combining the strategic mind skills of chess and the brutal age-old sport of boxing.

Two competitors face each other in 11 alternating rounds, 6 of chess and 5 of boxing. The chess rounds last 4 minutes each, then the bell sounds and the gloves go on for a 2 minute boxing round. How the hell did this start?

Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh, also known as the Joker, started out doing this as a performance art piece. He got the idea from a comic book called “Froid Équateur” which features opponents fighting an entire boxing match before sitting down to play the board game.

Rubingh thought the original idea to be impractical, so he developed the real-life version into what it is today, and it’s particularly popular in Germany, Great Britain and Russia. It does happen in the US too, in places such as LA and New York."


Official web site to the World Chess Boxing Association.
http://worldchessboxing.com/
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07-02-2015, 06:51 PM (This post was last modified: 07-02-2015 06:54 PM by TheTeddyBear.)
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RE: Chessboxing
It's been around for a while it's neat bit mainly in Russia, the same place that holds sanctioned Knight Fights

https://youtu.be/tyz1eJoSeIY

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07-03-2015, 06:41 AM
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RE: Chessboxing
Yeah I saw a doco on it. If you are an aggressive boxer with power, you could just be defensive on the chess board and knock the fukc out of dweebs.
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