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The first Chess Boxing World Championship was held in Amsterdam in 2003 and was won by Lepe Rubingh (Netherlands). Chess boxing is a hybrid sport which combines chess and boxing, alternating one round of each discipline.
This is a list of Chess boxing champions at each weight class sanctioned by World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO) and World Chessboxing Association (WCBA).
The first European Chess Boxing Championship took place in Berlin on 1 October 2005. [21] [22] Present-day chessboxing commentator Andreas Dilschneider was defeated by Tihomir Dovramadjiev (FIDE Master [23] [24]) when he resigned in the ninth round of chess, [25] crowning the latter by being the first European Chess Boxing Champion.
He was the President of the World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO [14] [15]) for many years [16] [17] [circular reference] [citation needed] and CEO of Chess Boxing Global, the marketing company for professional chessboxing. [18] Rubingh is recorded in the Guinness World Records as the First Chess Boxing World Champion. [19]
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 ...
Iepe Rubingh, 1974 – 2020. 5/11/2020 – He was one of the more interesting personalities in and around chess – but not just there. "Iepe the Joker" was a Dutch artist, entrepreneur, innovator and storyteller. For us his most relevant enterprises was chess boxing, which he initiated and popularized in a way nobody foresaw.
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The first chessboxing competition took place in Berlin in 2003. That same year, the first world championship fight was held in Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Dutch Boxing Association as well as the Dutch Chess Federation and under the auspices of the World Chess Boxing Organization (WCBO) that had been founded in Berlin shortly before.
