BERLIN – Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday ...

Men decked out in athletic gear are playing a round of speed chess in a gym in Mitte. They are dressed for boxing, but before they enter the ring, their battleground is the chessboard. “Chess-boxing,” ...

“It sounds like a gimmick,” admits Hip-Hop Chess Federation founder Adisa Banjoko. But chess and physical combat are being merged not only in the U.S. — where Banjoko’s group advocates combining chess ...

The rules of chess boxing: — A chess boxing match starts at the chessboard. In this version of speed chess, each player has a total of 12 minutes in which to beat his opponent. During a player's turn, ...

Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday night, ...

It's called chess boxing and it's like it sounds. We start in a ring. There are screaming fans. The first round is 4 minutes of chess, followed by 3 minutes of boxing, then chess, then boxing, for 11 ...

And so, we begin a discussion of outside-the-box competitions with the aim of categorizing each one: Real sport or just a weird activity? In our first review, we will look at a competition that ...

In what can only be described as the ultimate test of brains and braun, chessboxing is a “sport”. It’s actually a fairly popular sport in London and Berlin. The game is exactly what it sounds like; ...

It's 1992 , the death throes of the Cold War. French artist Enki Bilal publishes the last installment of his epic graphic novel, The Nikopol Trilogy. It depicts the bleakness of life in a ...

Most recently, I had a chance to collect some pearls about Chess from Chess players and found how often these proverbs fit the sport of boxing. Chess proverb one: “There is no such thing as a certain ...