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A chess boxing match in Berlin, 2008. Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. [1][2] Two combatants play alternating rounds of blitz chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by time penalty as in normal chess, and by boxing decision ...
Since 1992 it has gone to a global scale which includes England, Germany, France, Russia, and Japan. Chess boxing is a game that combines the two most popular games in the world: chess and boxing. The game was invented by Dutch artist Lepe Rubingh in 2003 who stumbled across the idea of chess-boxing in a French graphic novel.
Nov 18, 2023 · The creation of chessboxing. Jean-Louis Veenstra, who fought Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh at the first World Chessboxing Championship in Amsterdam, describes how his friend and opponent came up with ...
Died. 8 May 2020. (2020-05-08) (aged 45) [1] Occupation. Chess boxer. Iepe B. T. Rubingh (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈipə ˈrybɪŋ]; 17 August 1974 – 8 May 2020) was a Dutch performance artist, athlete and the founder of chess boxing and World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO, with central Berlin, Germany in 2003). [2]
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 ...
Apr 9, 2018 · The opponents were scheduled to alternate chess with boxing for 11 rounds total, but Adamski—who is two decades Kring’s junior—was able to avoid any mistakes on the board and overwhelm Kring ...
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And a look into its early years! Chess boxing, or chessboxing, is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional disciplines: chess and boxing. Two combatants play alternating blitz chess and boxing rounds until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by time penalty as in normal chess, and by boxing decision if there is a ...
