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Chess Boxing – The Comic Book Gag That Could

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It was invented as a satirical joke. Chess boxing was a plot device in the graphic novel, Froid Équateur (Equator Cold) by Serbian creator Enki Bilal. Unitil Iepe Rubingh, a comics artist from Holland, started organising real matches. And now there are 150 professional competitors. And is shown on German TV.

Insane.

Matches are made up of rounds of boxing and twelve minutes sessions of chess, alternating back and forth. The winner either gets checkmate or knocks his opponent out.

And on Saturday night, defending world champion Nikolai Sazhin, a 20 year-old Siberian neo-physicist beat 17 year old Leo Kraft from Germany with a checkmate.

Okay, so who's going to start organising professional versions of those Tron games, hmm?

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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