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Chessboxing Storming the Athletic World
samzenpus writes "Have you been craving an athletic competition that combines the raw physical energy of a chess match and the strategic acumen of boxing? Crave no more. Chessboxing is here. No really, Chessboxing. As the name suggests, Chessboxing combines rounds of chess alternating with rounds of boxing. If there is no winner after 11 rounds, the match is awarded to the fighter with the most points in the boxing ring. Dutch artist, Iepe Rubingh, created chessboxing in 2003. He says, 'I got the idea from a Serbian comic. It looked great. I wanted to see if it would work.'"
This is real, right?
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Alternating rounds of chess and boxing is at least as real as WarioWare. See Wikipedia's article.
Reminds me of a real world version of this game I played in my youth.
Call me when they have UFC-Go and I'll be the biggest fan in the world.
In Soviet Russia jokes are formulaic and decidedly non-humorous.
I had a similar idea a while ago. Play Go (or Chess or Shogi or similar) while running on a treadmill. As you run 'distance', your time available on the chess clock goes up. You can win either by winning the board game, or by sufficiently 'outrunning' your opponent (e.g. by having 30 minutes more to spare on your clock than they have.)
For the record: I put this idea in the public domain. (Not that anyone will notice.)
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Ultimate Fighting Checkers? Anyone?
You have achieved the proper balance of health and money when you can hold your breath for as long as it takes to make a dollar.
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"The competitors also wear earplugs and headphones during the chess rounds to help with concentration. "
Maybe it would have been more aproppriate with Chess Wrestling.
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...it seems to me that anyone intelligent enough to be particularly interested in chess wouldn't be overly enthusiastic about the possibility of brain damage over time from being struck in the head repeatedly. Concussions aren't funny. I mean, I'd hate to lose a game of chess to some 400-lb gorilla who got in a few lucky shots, and if you did this with any serious enthusiasm, your game of chess would almost certainly degrade over time.;)
I train in martial arts, but I avoid schools where being struck in the head is seen as a core part of training (I think MMA is fairly idiotic for this reason), and I think go is a much more interesting game overall. Combine go with something like a triathlon and I might find the idea more appealing as a mind-and-matter competition.
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I would love to play chess and I would like to box. I think making weight would always be the toughest part of training since sitting on your behind for chess makes it hard to lose water weight.
The game of chess is like a sword fight.
You must think first before you move.
Chessboxing and real boxing. They are quite adept at playing chess.
The comic in question is "Cold Equator" (Froid Equateur) from Enki BIlal. He's French comic book artist and filmmaker of Serbian origins.
At least in the World Chess Boxing organization website, they give proper credit to the guy (with photos and all).
The comic is very good too, part of the Nikopol trilogy. Check it out.
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Why were they wearing headphones during the chess?
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Well, why stop there. Maybe we can make it a decatholon event. We can add a game we played in college. Beer Pong. Like Ping-Pong, except you have to drink a sip of beer after each miss. We also use to have a Beer Mile Relay in HS track. It was patterned after the Three Mile Relay, but one carried a six pack of cheap beer, one can of which he had to drink before finishing his 1/2 mile segment, and pass the remaining containers to the next runner.
Please help me file out additional events, maybe make the pole vault more interesting by jumping over a razor wire fence.
Chessboxing first appeared in a french comics by Enki Bilal: Froid Equateur, published in 1992. Bilal probably never thought some people would make it real.
God some people are anal.
Bilal was born with a Yugoslavian passport and Wiki says he was born in 1951 in Belgrade.
Guess what? Thats not France.
Yes, yes, I know he lives there and most likely is a citizen and honestly wouldnt care debating things like this but
pinheads like you always think they are smarter than others because they know a bit of trivia.
The trivia I found trumps yours.
You can expound more on his current nationality but the definition was not wrong.
Its funny how people can never have been to the middle east but we have no problems always mentioning they are jewish (another mindless debate about religion vs nationality).
The great writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was exiled in 1974 and lived In VT for about two decades after that.
NEVER once have I heard him called the american writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Stop being anal about these things.