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 ...

SAN DIEGO (KSWB) – A king in his castle. “Three minutes Chess, three minutes boxing,” said Samy Shoker, “you start with chess, and after three minutes you stop the game and put your hands up.” Samy ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

What makes a better chess boxer, a boxer who can think strategically or a chess player who can throw a punch? According to Laura Pannack, a photographer who shot a series of chess boxer portraits at ...

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 ...