Chessboxing

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

Chessboxing

The basic idea in chessboxing is to combine the no.1 thinking sport and the no.1 fighting sport into a hybrid that demands the most of its competitors – both mentally and physically.
In a chessboxing fight two opponents play alternating rounds of chess and boxing. The contest starts with a round of chess, followed by a boxing round, followed by another round of chess and so on. In every round of chess the FIDE rules for a ´Blitz game´ apply, in every boxing round the AIBA rules apply with the following extensions and modifications: In a contest there shall be 11 rounds, 6 rounds of chess, 5 rounds of boxing. A round of chess takes 4 minutes. Each competitor has 12 minutes on the chess timer. As soon as the time runs out the game is over.

A round of boxing takes 2 minutes. Between rounds there is a 1 minute pause, during which competitors change their gear. The contest is decided by: checkmate (chess round), exceeding the time limit (chess round), retirement of an opponent (chess or boxing round), KO (boxing round), or referee decision (boxing round). If the chess game ends in a stalement, the opponent with the higher score in boxing wins. If there is an equal score, the opponent with the black pieces wins.

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I think I will start training for this soon.

Dr. Giganto

Sports Moderator

haha...i saw this earlier, and I was going to post it. This "sport" doesnt really make much sense. I bet the idea is that the winner will be someone who is both smart and tough, but theoretically you just have Gery Kasparov checkmate a guy in less than 4 minutes, or have Tyson hold his own for 4 minutes, and then absolutely pummel a guy when it gets to the boxing part.

It's stupid