I would consider ESPN...
Jul. 18th, 2008 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljgeoffChessboxing! Why have I never heard of this?
"In the emergent sport of CHESSBOXING, competitors alternate between 3-min rounds of boxing and 4-min rounds of chess, with 1-min breaks in between to take the gloves off, etc. The winner is determined by knockout, checkmate or referee decision.... Nickolaj Sazhin, 19, who won the light-heavyweight division in Berlin on July 5 after seizing his punch-drunk opponent's queen in the fifth round of chess:
You have to be totally cooled down in chess coming out of the boxing round. The adrenaline is the problem" ... ... Time Magazine, July 21 2008
"In the emergent sport of CHESSBOXING, competitors alternate between 3-min rounds of boxing and 4-min rounds of chess, with 1-min breaks in between to take the gloves off, etc. The winner is determined by knockout, checkmate or referee decision.... Nickolaj Sazhin, 19, who won the light-heavyweight division in Berlin on July 5 after seizing his punch-drunk opponent's queen in the fifth round of chess:
You have to be totally cooled down in chess coming out of the boxing round. The adrenaline is the problem" ... ... Time Magazine, July 21 2008