In our first review, we will look at a competition that combines brain and brawn: chess boxing. Chess boxing is exactly what you’d expect given its name. A match consists of 11 alternating three ...

Chessboxing is a hybrid sport that combines the disciplines of chess and boxing. Competitors go from trying to see who has the biggest brain in chess, to then trying to beat one another’s brains ...

Because this isn’t regular boxing—it’s chessboxing. Chessboxing is a hybrid sport that is exactly what it sounds like: Chess plus boxing, or, more specifically, a round of chess followed by ...

Chess and boxing seem as bizarre a pairing as anything, but they do have something in common, writes David Edmonds. One is a duel often characterised by cruelty, ruthlessness and violence.

For the uninitiated, chess boxing is a rather simple sport that relies on more strategy that you might think. The match starts off with four minutes of speed chess. (That means each player gets ...

Can you be brainy and brawny at the same time? The sport of chess boxing suggests you can. The former boxing world heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis, is keen to dismiss the idea that if you're ...

In our first review, we will look at a competition that combines brain and brawn: chess boxing. Chess boxing is exactly what you’d expect given its name. A match consists of 11 alternating three ...

Chess boxing is the ultimate test of both brain and brawn. Two fights go back and forth between intense rounds of strategy and athleticism as they battle in a mental battle on a chess board and an ...