Chess Boxing is a sport combining chess with boxing by alternating the rounds in sequence. The synthesis of chess and boxing is a sports and applied discipline, a hybrid method of developing a person's intellectual and physical abilities, teaching the ability to combine mental and physical activity in extreme combat conditions. One of the main tasks of chessboxing is to teach adolescents, youth and adults to think, analyze, solve complex problems in the field of intellectual combat, as well as to simultaneously acquire practical fighting skills from boxing for sports, professional and defensive purposes. Other tasks include such aspects as maintaining a healthy lifestyle; training of professional personnel in the field of security and sports; development of the intellectual and physical abilities of modern human.
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Chess boxing, or chessboxing combines chess and boxing into a unified, codified sporting discipline. The participants compete in alternating rounds of chess and boxing, with the chessboard brought in and out of the ring between rounds of boxing. The chess game is played with clock-times ranging from 3 minutes to 12 minutes per player, depending on various factors, such as experience or whether the fight is for a title.
Novice chessboxers compete in shorter contests with 4 x 3 minute rounds of chess and 3 x 2 minute boxing rounds, whilst full senior chessboxing bouts consist of 6 x 4 minute rounds of chess interspersed with 5 x 3 minute rounds of boxing.
Chessboxing was invented by French comic book artist Enki Bilal and adapted by the Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh as a piece of performance art. Chessboxing has subsequently grown into a competitive sport with many chessboxers active around the world. The sport is particularly popular in the United Kingdom, Germany, India, Italy, Finland and Russia.
ETYMOLOGY
The term chessboxing was first coined by Joseph Kuothe director/producer of the 1979 martial arts film The Mystery of Chess Boxing. The film was released under various titles including GrandMaster Attack in Hong Kong and Ninja Checkmate elsewhere. Later The Mystery of Chess Boxing became the title for all international releases.
In the film, Jack Long plays a kung-fu teacher and "chess" master who incorporates some of the virtues of chess such as mental calm and forethought, into his martial arts training which develops into a new style of fighting known as chessboxing. It should be noted that all forms of chessboxing outside the film have involved the Western style of chess while Joseph Kuo's film features Chinese chess or "Xiangqi". Chinese chess and Western chess demand similar strategic and tactical skills and both incorporate the idea of making moves that cannot be retracted, all fundamental components of the association between the board game and the fighting discipline.
Chinese Boxing is a complex martial art with no clear definition. Most people agree though that Chinese Boxing either grew out of or influenced Kung Fu. Since the protagonists in the film make reference to Kung Fu, in this instance it is probably fair to say the terms were interchangeable at the time the film was made but The Mystery of Chess Boxing could easily have been The Mystery of Chess Kung Fu or even The Mystery of Xiangqi Kung Fu.
The term chess boxing was first used for this hybrid sport in 1992 by Yugoslavia-born French author Enki Bilal, in his comic book Froid Equateur. As it combines two classic physical and mental sports, the name is just a combination of the two existing words chess and boxing. The term chess boxing is often used interchangeably with chessboxing and occasionally even chess-boxing has been seen. As time has gone by however the single word chessboxing has gained prominence, finding its way into numerous dictionaries.
The first modern chessboxing event was put on by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh. Rubingh's concept originated from the 1992 comic book Froid Équateur, written by the French comic book artist Enki Bilal, which features a chessboxing world championship. In the comic book version, however, the opponents fight an entire boxing match before they face each other in a game of chess. Rubingh developed the idea further by conceptualising a contest with alternating rounds of chess and boxing.
SKILLSET
Although in its earliest days Chessboxing was envisaged as an elitist sport demanding high levels of skill in both chess and boxing, the explosion of interest, particularly in Italy and the UK quickly led to a more egalitarian approach being adopted. As it stands, competitors are required to undergo a standard competitive boxing training regime (which typically takes three to six months) and to demonstrate an ability to play chess above a rating of 1000 Elo, a level most beginners are able to achieve within a couple of months of practice.
HISTORY
An even earlier version of the sport combining chess and boxing is reported to have taken place in a boxing club in London in late 1979. The Robinson brothers, James and Stewart, were both keen chess players as well as competitive boxers and began playing chess between rounds of training at their local boys club. The practice attracted the attention of local media and according to James Robinson a report into their exploits at the Samuel Montagu Boys Club was published in the Greenwich News Shopper, a local freesheet, at some point in 1979. Some historians have speculated that this newspaper story may have influenced Kuo who was known to have been in London at around this time negotiating distribution deals for what was then known as Ninja Checkmate. That the retitling of the film to The Mystery Of Chessboxing might actually be attributed to the sporting passions of the fraternally competitive Robinsons of south-London, is an intriguing possibility. It's not possible to draw more than a speculative connection at least in part due to the failure of researchers to locate a copy of the original Greenwich News Shopper article – although tantalisingly, a photograph used to illustrate the article, depicting the brothers playing chess in boxing gloves, does exist.
The first modern chessboxing competition took place in Amsterdam in 2003. Dutch middleweight fighters Iepe Rubingh and Jean Louis Veenstra faced each other in the ring. After his opponent exceeded the chess time limit, Rubingh won the fight in the eleventh round, thereby placing himself in the history books as the first-ever World Chess Boxing Champion.
Two years after the first world championship the first European Chess Boxing Championship took place in Berlin on 1 October 2005. Present-day chessboxing commentator Andreas Dilschneider was defeated by Tihomir Dovramadjiev when he resigned in the ninth round of chess. Bulgaria's Dovramadjiev was crowned the first European Chess Boxing Champion.
This event marked the beginning of a long running love affair between Chessboxing and the media.It was covered by a number of international magazines and broadcasters including Eurosport, CNN, The Los Angeles Times, Die Welt and ChessBase. A video report by German television channel RBB presented the event in detail.
In 2006, more than 800 spectators filled the Gloria Theatre in Cologne for the world championship qualification fight between Zoran Mijatovic and Frank Stoldt. The 36-year-old Frank Stoldt, who was a former UN peacekeeper in Kosovo and Afghanistan, won when his opponent resigned in chess in the seventh round. After qualifying to fight for the title in 2006, Frank Stoldt went up against American David Depto in November 2007 in Berlin to fight for the first world championship title in the light heavyweight division. More than 800 tickets were sold for the event at the Tape Club in Berlin, making it the biggest chessboxing title fight to that date. Frank Stoldt defeated Depto in the seventh round, thereby becoming the first German world champion.
Chessboxing first received credit from the International Chess Federation FIDE, in April 2008; its president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, took part in a chessboxing demo fight in Elista.
In 2008, chessboxing clubs were founded in the UK in London, and in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia. In 2009, the Los Angeles Chessboxing Club was the first of its kind in the United States and was directly followed by the New York Chessboxing Club in 2010. The Boxer Club in Munich also opened in 2010 and offered chessboxing training for a time.
In 2011, the first international club matchup took place, with the infamous "Battle of the Cities" between London and Berlin. Although conceived as an effort to jointly support each club's promotional efforts, events unfolded in a way which led to a lasting division between chessboxing's pre-eminent champions and promoters Iepe Rubingh and London's Tim Woolgar. This fracture led to the formation of the World Chessboxing Association (WCBA) which became a rival to the pre-existing World Chessboxing Organisation (WCBO) which had been founded by Iepe Rubingh and from then onwards the two international sanctioning bodies offered independent recognition to chessboxers and promoters of the sport.
In 2011, The Chess Boxing Organisation India was founded in by kickboxing official and former Indian kickboxing and karate champion, Montu Das. India affailiated with the WCBO followed soon after by chessboxing organisations from Italy, Turkey and Iran.
In 2013, a World Chessboxing Championship was held in Moscow for the first time, with three world title fights across three different weight divisions in one night. In front of more than 1,200 spectators, the Russian Leonid Chernobaev seized the light heavyweight title for Russia, beating the Indian fighter Shailesh Tripathi after a technical knockout in the eighth round. Germany's Sven Rooch secured his title in the middleweight class division by winning against Jonatan Rodriguez Vega after the Spaniard resigned in the seventh round. Meanwhile the heavyweight Russian Nikolay Sazhin, from Krasnoyarsk, cemented his reputation as the world's greatest chessboxer by defeating Italy's Gianluca Sirci by checkmate. In doing so Sazhin united the WCBA and WCBO heavyweight belts and became the first chessboxer to win world titles in two weight divisions following his 2010 light-heavyweight victory over Frank Stoldt in Berlin.
The development of Chessboxing continued at quite a pace, with much success in 2013 and early 2014. There were more competitors in the second and third Indian Championships in the summer of 2013 and early 2014 than at any chessboxing events held previously, with more than 245 fighters of varying ages and weight classes, taking place in Salem and Jodhpur, respectively. Furthermore, the chessboxing community in London continued to grow.
2014 also saw the founding of the Finnish Chessboxing Club in Helsinki with just five members and the official foundation of the Moscow Chess Boxing Club. 2015 saw several events promoted by London Chessboxing under the auspices of the WCBA. The first of which saw the former British, European, and IBF light-welterweight world champion Terry Marsh fight step into the ring, securing the light-heavyweight World Championship by beating the reigning champion Dymer Agasaryan from Lithuania. Terry Marsh, a former London schools chess champion at the under-13 age level, remains the only world title-winning professional boxer to compete in chessboxing. In the process he extended his spotless unbeaten record in all forms of the boxing including over 180 amateur, 27 professional and three chessboxing bouts.
Since 2015 there have been many tournaments including multiple Indian Chessboxing events, the formation and first event of the Paris Chessboxing Club, and a WCBO World Chessboxing tournament staged by the Turkish Chessboxing Federation.
London Chessboxing continued with its factory line of events making the British capital the global epicentre of Chessboxing at least in terms of frequency with typically three to four events being staged every year up until the outbreak of the global pandemic.
London Chessboxing end of year shows have been particular favourites as they are generally staged to coincide with the prestigious London Chess Classic tournament – attracting interest from many super-Grandmasters including the World Chess Champion Magnus Carslen. Many GMs have expressed interest in taking part in a Chessboxing contest, with reportedly, Hikaru Nakamura and Simon "GingerGM" Williams being the most notable.
Such a contest would mark the next exciting step forward in the evolution of the sport which has blurred the lines between fact and fiction and continues to excite and enchant in ways which its founder Iepe Rubingh could hardly have imagined possible when he conceived his performance art project back in 2003.
Last year brought extraordinary challenges for the entire world but Chessboxing was hard hit in more ways than one. In May 2020 it was announced that Iepe Rubingh had died suddenly and unexpectedly in his Berlin apartment. It was a shock that touched every fan and practitioner of chessboxing around the world.
Chessboxing may have been dealt a blow by the pandemic and loss of its founder but it is most certainly not out fro the count. The sport is moving into a new phase of with promoters and competitors alike determined to honour the legacy of Iepe Rubingh and to bring the Chessboxing to the forefront of the public's consciousness in 2021.
Amongst the first events in the calendar for 2021 will be the inaugural Finnish Chessboxing tournament in Helsinki – likely to take place in October. London Chessboxing will return in December and in Russia, both Moscow and Krasnoyarsk Chessboxing clubs are making plans to stage events at the earliest opportunity. Beyond this Chessboxing has made a tentative launch in Melbourne, Australia, and a new vibrant Chessboxing scene is springing up in Brazil under the leadership of GM Andre Diamant.
WAYS TO WIN
The essential idea of chessboxing is to combine the two disciplines of chess and boxing in a bid to find new ways to challenge the human spirit. A chessboxing bout is usually decided in one of three ways;
Less common ways for a bout to end are;
While resignation is commonplace in all levels of chess competition, where playing to a checkmate on the board can be perceived as either embarrassing or disrespectful, over time they have come to be discouraged in chessboxing. This is because the act of resignation may deprive members of the audience of a satisfying conclusion to a bout.
A Chessboxing bout is concluded by knockout (KO), technical knockout (TKO), disqualification, checkmate, loss on time (chess), or submission. The term technical knockout incorporates various circumstances when a fighter is deemed unable to defend himself properly. Disqualification can result from a single serious, or multiple less serious, infringements of the rules. The threat of disqualification is most commonly evident during contests when one competitor attempts to stall for time on the chessboard. A loss on time occurs when a player expends all his clock time, which occurs in approximately 30% of all bouts. Submission is a term used in Chessboxing to refer to what chess players would call resignation. A competitor may forfeit the contest at any time by toppling his King – however this practise is frowned upon by spectators who prefer to see the contest played to a final conclusion.
On 23rd July 2024, at the historic (over 130 years old) and famous venue L'Olympia in Paris, there has been an event of chessboxing as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
Published by Philippine de Sortiraparis · Published on July 19, 2024
On July 22, 23 and 24, 2024, Olympia hosts the crème de la crème of the Cultural Olympiad organized as part of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. On the program: performance, music, acrobatics, visual creations, dance and more, linking sport and culture.
The Olympia Cultural Olympiad will take place on July 22, 23 and 24 as part of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games . The aim of the Cultural Olympiad is to highlight culture and art in all their forms, in conjunction with sport. The event is taking place in a venue like no other: the famous Parisian music hall, Olympia. With a unique program, and an exceptional setting, L'Olympiade Culturelle fait l'Olympia keeps us waiting patiently for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics.
The program, spread over three days, is divided into three parts each day:
First part from 2pm to 4pm: a strolling tour of Olympia
Out of the Blue: a show combining apnea, acrobatics and aquatic performances in a pool specially fitted out for the occasion.
À l'Unisson: a unique 15-minuteshow featuring 20 dancers and a committed discourse on inclusion with amateurs (disabled or not), Paralympic athletes and professional artists.
Le Live Magazine: a show at the crossroads of journalism, with testimonials and a film screening.
Galerie Numérique: a digital art exhibition on the theme of sport on the big screens of the Olympia gallery.
Second part from 7.30pm: the big shows on the Olympia stage
Part 1: Entre Ciel et Terre ( 30 min.), a bespoke creation with sixteen performers by Damien Droin, a former athlete and French vice-champion who has made his specialty the heart of his art: trampoline.
Part 2: Level Up ( 30 min.), choreographed byAmala Dianor and featuring a group of 11 international dancers, combining electro, Afro, krump, hiphop new style, voguing, waacking and pantsula.
Third part and closing of the day: a different artistic battle each evening
Monday July 22, Battle BD et Breakdance: Illustrators and breakers of renown will face off in a show presented in partnership with the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême and the RStyle association. They'll draw live as a battle takes shape under the strokes of a pencil.
Tuesday, July 23, Chessboxing: a sport combining boxing and chess, invented by author Enki Bilal and now organized within the World Chess Boxing Organisation, which brings together several thousand practitioners worldwide. The evening will feature an anthology match, the equivalent of a men's world championship in 6 rounds of chess and 5 rounds of boxing, with Carl Strugnelland Frenchman Valentin Marcelet. There will also be a women's match between Kenza Megzari and Sneha Waykar. Music will be provided by Dj muge and the evening will be hosted by comedian Vincent Desagnat.
Wednesday July 24, Rencontre de Jazz Ibrahim Maalouf x Bob Beamon: International jazz star Ibrahim Maalouf invites a living legend from the history of the Olympic Games , Bob Beamon. Now a percussionist in a New York jazz band, Beamon is responsible for one of the most extraordinary leaps in the history of modern athletics. At the 1968 Games in Mexico City, Bob Beamon set a new world record in the long jump with a superhuman gesture that remained unbeaten for 23 years.
As a reminder, the Cultural Olympiad, launched for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, aims to promote interaction between art and sport. An initiative starting in 2021, with the aim of offering a rich and varied multidisciplinary program, featuring artistic performances, exhibitions, and cultural events across France. A celebration of Olympic values such as inclusion, excellence and diversity, to be found in the free Cultural Olympiad atOlympia on July 22, 23 and 24.
Deutscher Schachbund November 12, 2024
CHESSBOXING DIEPPE est UNE SECTION de l'Échiquier DieppoisLes séances sont construites sur l'apprentissage de la boxe et du sport Échecs
Nous participons aux compétitions organisés par la fédération de Chessboxing.Le prochain championnat du monde va se dérouler en France fin 2025, il y aura une sélection en septembre 2025 et nous espérons plusieurs chessboxeurs Dieppois sélectionnés
Nous proposons des cours autour de l'univers de la boxe, avec ou sans opposition.Vous souhaitez vous perfectionner ou simplement vous initier, et bien sûr vous maintenir en forme, nous vous accompagneront pour atteindre vos objectifsLes cours sont encadrés par Olivier Delabarre éducateur sportif.
Par Assia Hamdi
Publié le 02 novembre 2024
The West Chesser, Rank and File Newsletter, Official Newsletter of the West Chester Chess Club, Volume XXXI, Number 4 Donald Anderson, Editor Source: CNN.com, October 6, 2005 WCCC Officers Donald Anderson, President Jim White, Chief TD and Treasurer" (PDF).
https://wccc.shaffertech.com/West_Chesser_XXXI-4.pdf
- COLLISION DETECTION about the First European Chess Boxing Championship, citing the CNN. OCTOBER 2005.
https://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2005/10/boxing_and_ches.php
https://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/06/chess.boxing.reut/
CNN on Chessboxing 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uob-Z9kN-F4
Satranç Boksu nedir?
20.02.2022
https://www.cnnturk.com/yazarlar/guncel/sercan-sipka/satranc-boksu-nedir
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/
First Chess Boxing World Champion
Who: IEPE RUBINGH
What: FIRST
Where: NETHERLANDS (AMSTERDAM)
When: 2003
The first Chess Boxing World Championship was held in Amsterdam in 2003 and was won by Iepe Rubingh (Netherlands). Chess boxing is a hybrid sport which combines chess and boxing, alternating one round of each discipline.
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-chess-boxing-world-champion
First World Chess Boxing Championship, Amsterdam 2003, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e-I7ynJuDI
First World Chess Boxing Championship, Amsterdam 2003, Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjk5Fn4TQAU
Первый Чемпионат Мира по Шахбоксу, Амстердам 2003, часть 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHKimXrwQ8I&t=1s
Первый Чемпионат Мира по Шахбоксу, Амстердам, 2003, часть 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srko8khf5vE
Юлия Николаева
6 ноября 2024 20:30
Президент Федерации шахбокса Санкт-Петербурга поделился секретами, которые используют петербургские тренеры для достижения быстрого прогресса в этом виде спорта
https://spbdnevnik.ru/news/2024-11-06/evgeniy-klimuk-shahboks-vliyaet-na-aktivnoe-dolgoletie
Юлия Николаева
1 ноября 2024
https://awakeningfighters.com/
Summary
Chess Boxing is a new "hybrid" sport which combines various elements of chess and Boxing into a challenging battle of wills. Though a relatively new sport, Chess Boxing is gradually gaining popularity throughout the world. What sets it apart from others sports in this category is how it requires physical strength and agility as well as strong mental capabilities. Introduced by Iepe Rubingh in its modern form, it was originally conceived by James and Stewart Robinson in Greenwich, England in 1973. In a dramatic display of brawn and brains, players go through alternate rounds of chess and boxing for a total of 11 rounds or until one player wins.(1)
History / Origins
ETYMOLOGY
The term Chess Boxing was first used for this hybrid sport in 1992 by Yugoslavia-born French author Enki Bilal, in his graphic novel "Froid Equateur". As it combines two classic physical and mental sports, the name is just a combination of their two names into one. Today the term Chess Boxing is often used interchangeably with Chessboxing.
BEGINNINGS
The idea of combining a physical sport with one that requires you to use brain power is not a new one. Many fictional works have depicted the concept in one way or the other. Having said that, Chess Boxing was seen for the very first time in 1970's at a Boxing club in Greenwich, England. It was conceived by two siblings James and Stewart Robinson. The two, being amateur Boxers and club chess players had a deep interest in both games.. However, it was Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh who introduced Chess Boxing into the modern world. The first Chess Boxing tournament was held in Amsterdam in 2003 which Rubingh won. This was followed by many other events in Europe. Among them the most well-known was the European Chess Boxing Championship in Berlin on October1, 2005. With each passing year, Chess Boxing gained popularity in the world of chess and Boxing. The fact became evident when the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov played a friendly Chess Boxing match in 2008 to show his support.(1)(2)
PRESENT DAY
In recent years numerous Chess Boxing tournaments have been held in European countries, United States and Japan. There are Chess Boxing clubs and matches on local levels in many countries including India. The World Chess Boxing Organization (WCBO) is the governing body for the sport. The organization has a motto, "Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board."(3)
More recently Iran has joined in with its Iranian Chess Boxing Organization, ICBO. Many well-known celebrities and famous people have started showing an interest in the sport. Among them is the television producer Timothy Woolgar, who participates actively in hosting Chess Boxing tournaments in London.
Today Chess Boxing competitions require players with extensive skills in both chess and Boxing. The bar for chess experience has been set at 1800, so that even those who are the weakest at playing chess can beset their opponents in Boxing. All world class Boxers have to demonstrate a well-rounded performance in both chess and Boxing. Famous Chess Boxer Sazhin has an ELO rating of 1900 while the European Chess Boxing champion Tihomir Atanassov Dovramadjiev has an outstanding rating of 2300, with multiple wins in chess competitions the world over.
FOLKLORE
With its origin in the world of comic books, people got their very first taste of this exotic sport in the pages of Enki Bilal's comic book. In the comic, a bout of Boxing was followed by a match of chess. However, being a relatively new sport there is not much in terms of folklore associated with it. It just represents a balance between the physical and the mental abilities of a human being; any person who shows extraordinary skills in chess and Boxing can become a world class Chess Boxer.
Practices
PHILOSOPHY
Chess Boxing has a simple philosophy; to be a world class Chess Boxer you have to be a skilled chess player as well as an exceptional Boxer. This blend of physical and mental abilities in a person is what Chess Boxing is all about. To stretch your body to the limit on a physical level, while honing your brain power is a challenge that not many can undertake. However, that's precisely the philosophy behind this unusual sport and it is what is making it popular across the globe. There are many physical sports out there, as are games that require a test of mental skill but there are hardly any sports that require both in this way, making Chess Boxing unique in every sense of the word.
Rules / Rulesets
RULES / RULESETS
There are a total of 11 rounds in Chess Boxing. The game can end before that though, if one of the players wins at a round. The game consists of alternate rounds of chess and Boxing but starts with chess. In the chess round each player is given a four minute time for each move for a total of 12 minutes. The Boxing round is three minutes long and scoring is like all Boxing matches, using the "ten-point-must". If the player knocks out his opponent, he wins the match. At the end of all 11 rounds, if the chess game has ended in a draw, the Boxing scores are used to determine the winner.
POPULAR CULTURE
The release of the 1979 martial arts film, "The Mystery of Chess Boxing", (Shuang ma lian huan) was a turning point for Chess Boxing and sparked an interest in this unusual sport the world over. It has become part of popular culture and while some regard it as an absurd sport, it continues to grow in popularity among the youth in general and among boxing enthusiasts in particular.
References
REFERENCES
https://chess.about.com/od/chessvariants/a/Chessboxing.htm
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/chess-boxing-yes-actual-thing-175224799.html
https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/cmu-chess-club/chess_boxing.htm#History
https://awakeningfighters.com/awakepedia/chess-boxing/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201022092338/https://awakeningfighters.com/awakepedia/chess-boxing/
5 September 2024
26.12.2024
Von Nelis Heidemann
El Chess Boxing es un deporte oficioso que cuenta con una estrella española: Jonathan Rodríguez Vega, subcampeón del mundo de Chess Boxing. Hablamos con él.
Por Rosa MartíPublicado: 22/01/2021
https://www.menshealth.com/es/fitness/a35262772/chess-boxing-ajedrez-boxeo/
https://www.chessboxingworld.com/default.asp#about
CHESSBOXING
For some it is a "sports oxymoron," the juxtaposition of two disciplines seemingly light years apart. Chess and boxing, in whatever order you take them, at first very superficial glance look like this: two lost galaxies in which on one you need brains, while on the other muscles count. But using both of them in a massive way, until now, was not required. Instead, it was putting them together, forcing them into a marriage that on paper seemed impossible, that gave the contours to a new, curious, spectacular and unique discipline. For the first time in the history of sports, two athletes ready to challenge each other are asked to stump their opponent first with their hands and immediately afterwards with their minds. It sounds like an easy feat, but it is not at all: the adrenaline of boxing, a sport par excellence made up of physical contact and strength, and immediately after the ability to find concentration in front of a chessboard, in the oldest and most diabolical game of strategy ever devised by man. The result is the exact meeting point of two forces, both fundamental in the ring as in life: the one that comes from exercise and the other, the one honed by the equally constant training of gray matter. It means having created a discipline that celebrates the greatest military strategists in history, those who were able to deploy and move armies around the battlefield before drawing their swords and going on the attack.
CHESSBOXING
Per qualcuno è un "ossimoro sportivo", l'accostamento di due discipline all'apparenza distanti anni luce fra loro. Gli scacchi e la boxe, in qualsiasi ordine si prendano, ad una prima occhiata molto superficiale sembrano così: due galassie sperdute in cui su una serve il cervello, mentre sull'altra contano i muscoli. Ma usarli entrambi in modo massiccio, finora non era richiesto. Invece è stato proprio il metterli insieme, costringendoli ad un matrimonio che sulla carta sembrava impossibile, a dare i contorni ad una disciplina nuova, curiosa, spettacolare e unica. Per la prima volta nella storia degli sport, a due atleti pronti a sfidarsi è chiesto di mettere in difficoltà l'avversario prima con le mani e subito dopo con la mente. Sembra un'impresa facile, ma non lo è affatto: l'adrenalina della boxe, sport per eccellenza fatto di contatto fisico e forza, e subito dopo la capacità di trovare la concentrazione di fronte ad una scacchiera, nel più antico e diabolico gioco di strategia mai ideato dall'uomo. Il risultato è l'esatto punto di incontro di due forze, entrambe fondamentali sul ring come nella vita: quella che deriva dall'esercizio e l'altra, quella affinata dall'allenamento altrettanto costante della materia grigia. Volendo, significa aver creato una disciplina che celebra i più grandi strateghi militari della storia, coloro che erano capaci di schierare e spostare gli eserciti sul campo di battaglia prima di sguainare la spada e partire all'attacco.
"VOGUE. By Ro Elfberg (8 NOVEMBER 2020). 'The Queen's Gambit' Confirms What I've Known All Along: Chess Is Completely Captivating'". Anya Taylor-Joy: "As an aside, if you are the type of person who likes their intellectual board games with a dash of danger, let me draw your attention to my favourite sport: chessboxing".
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/the-queens-gambit-chess
"TelegraphIndia. Priyanka Roy, Published 11.12.20. The Queen's Gambit: Netflix's most successful scripted limited-series".
"Netflix Nseries 2020 "The Queen's gambit"".
https://www.netflix.com/bg/title/80234304
"IMDb The Queen's Gambit 2020".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10048342/
FIDE - International Chess Federation
01.03.2021
The Queen's Gambit won a Golden Globe as the Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television. Anya Taylor-Joy got a Golden Globe for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television for her portrayal of Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit.
https://www.facebook.com/ChessFIDE/photos/a.198514613520712/3967783143260488
https://www.spqrnews.com/in-los-angeles-the-chessboxing-event-most-viewed-of-all-times/
Dec 17th, 2022
About 7,000 spectators present at the Galen Center in Los Angeles for the Mogul Chessboxing Championship and a peek of over 317,000 online and a total of about 10,000,000 visualisations (only on YouTube) in less than a week: these are the viewing numbers of the event created by Ludwig Ahgren, best known on the social medias simply as "Ludwig".
Телеканал Санкт-Петербург
https://topspb.tv/news/2019/08/23/chem-shahboks-privlekaet-shahmatistov-i-bokserov/
.Moscow 24 TV. Москва 24 – информационно-образовательный телеканал
https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ECU-NEWSLETTER-99.pdf
CHECKMATE MEETS KO: NE...
By Sean Waisglass: There it was in the weekend paper: a Reuters news agency photo of two boxers in the ring sitting on their stools. Both men were stripped to the waist and wearing standard-issue trunks, their hair wet with sweat. All the trappings of a typical bout were present plus one glaring and notable addition - a chess board placed between the two combatants.
https://www.eurosport.com/boxing/world-news/2005/checkmate-meets-ko-ne._sto782958/story.shtml
https://www.rbb-online.de/fernsehen/
RBB Fernsehen
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rbb_Fernsehen
First European Chess Boxing Championship, Berlin 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN_PdZRv67U
Chess Boxing Club Berlin Schachboxen - Skurriler Sport Made in Berlin
Di 02.11.21 | Von Friedrich Rößler
https://www.rbb24.de/sport/beitrag/2021/11/chessboxing-schachboxen-berlin-rubingh-boxen-schach.html
20. Oktober 2005
Quelle: DIE ZEIT, 43/2005
In der ZEIT Nr. 39/05 schrieb Justus Bender über die neue Sportart Schachboxen. Es wird abwechselnd vier Minuten Schach gespielt, dann zwei Minuten geboxt. Nun fand am 1. Oktober die erste Schachbox-Europameisterschaft in Berlin statt: Der Deutsche Andreas Dilschneider unterlag dem Bulgaren Tihomir Dovramadjiev. Dessen Kampfname ist Tigertad, er ist einer der weltweit besten Schnellschachspieler. So nahm das Ganze einen vergleichsweise friedlichen Ausgang. Schachmatt in Runde neun.
https://www.zeit.de/2005/43/Geschichten_die_das_Leben_schrieb https://web.archive.org/web/20201015174944/https://www.zeit.de/2005/43/Geschichten_die_das_Leben_schrieb
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED: CHESSBOXING USA 17 October 2005 year (page 26). The 1-st European Chessboxing Championship. /Date: 1.X.2005 year, Place: Berlin, Germany/. Sports Illustrated USA
https://vault.si.com/vault/2005/10/17/the-beat
https://vault.si.com/vault/2005/10/17/723919#&gid=ci0258c148e00e26ef&pid=723919---cover-image
https://vault.si.com/vault/2005/10/17/723919#&gid=ci0258c148e00e26ef&pid=723919---036---image
https://web.archive.org/web/20211208104438/https://vault.si.com/vault/2005/10/17/the-beat
Revista Gratuita. Motor Club Magazine: Chessboxing (Núm. 110- Junio, 2018, p. 32), https://docplayer.es/79577863-Magazine-mensual-de-actualidad-motor-deporte-ocio-salud-num-junio-revista-gratuita.html
TRIB LIVE: Chessboxing requires brain and brawn. Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005, https://archive.triblive.com/news/chessboxing-requires-brain-and-brawn/
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