Chess-Boxing: The Comeback of Chess

by Eugene Kan, July 12, 2008

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In a relatively quiet uprising, two unlikely sports have paired up and been making waves amongst many levels of society. Chess-boxing combines the brawn of combat with the brains of carefully calculating the next move in a bizarre mash-up which sees combatants fight for 3 minute rounds only to sit down for a 4 minute round of speed chess in the center of the ring. One minute breaks allow for fighters to take off their gloves with winners coming via referee stoppage, TKO and checkmate. This seems to be among the latest in the push to rid chess of somewhat nerdy origins and embody it for its great values and thinking tools it maintains as even the fabled RZA of The Wu-Tang Clan has initiated WuChess.com as well as others launching the HipHopChessFederation.org.

Source: Time, Wikipedia

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7 Responses

  1. Posted by: lukegaru on July 13, 2008 at 11:13 am

    cmoooon hypebeast!!! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5350368

  2. Posted by: mikekickz on July 13, 2008 at 1:31 am

    how old are you Ra_Co?

  3. Posted by: Mike HES on July 13, 2008 at 12:39 am

    ^^^google wu tang 36 chambers and u will find out, but on another note this shits crazy haha

  4. Posted by: Ra_Co on July 12, 2008 at 11:41 pm

    what does actual Chess/Boxing got to do with hip hop??????

  5. Posted by: sopemag.com on July 12, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    hip hop must really be starving

  6. Posted by: Chris on July 12, 2008 at 1:46 pm

    mmm I play chess and I can box too… i should try this!

  7. Posted by: E-MAN on July 12, 2008 at 2:38 am

    WTF!?!?!? this is the craziest sh*t that i’ve seen in a while.