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DBMA Martial Arts Forum => Martial Arts Topics => Topic started by: Karsk on February 08, 2009, 12:40:02 AM

Title: Chessboxing?!
Post by: Karsk on February 08, 2009, 12:40:02 AM

I came across this recently http://vorschau.iepe.net/wcbo/content/index_en.html (http://vorschau.iepe.net/wcbo/content/index_en.html)

Apparently it is a genuine sport with pros.   It combines 4 minute rounds of chess with boxing rounds in 11 round fights.  You can win by checkmate or knockout!

Karsk

Title: Re: Chessboxing?!
Post by: Tom Stillman on February 08, 2009, 10:00:00 AM

Sounds like a case of, to much Wu Tang on the brain!   :lol:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoWvNuXiZt8

Title: Re: Chessboxing?!
Post by: Doppelgangster on February 08, 2009, 10:29:50 AM

That looks like an awesome sport!  I'll have to try it some time.

Title: Chessboxing and the 20s
Post by: SWBrowne on February 23, 2016, 07:37:55 PM

Anyone remember a Harry Harrison SF novel where a human colonized planet had an Olympic-like  20event contest that combined combat sports with chess and poetry reading? The winner for the year was called simply a Winner.

Title: Hustler vs. Grandmaster
Post by: Crafty_Dog on February 23, 2016, 10:53:24 PM

http://twistedsifter.com/videos/trash-talking-chess-hustler-unknowingly-challenges-grandmaster/