Chess boxing
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Chess boxing, or Chessboxing is a hybrid sport that combines two traditional pastimes: chess and boxing.[1][2] Two combatants play alternative rounds of speed chess and boxing until one wins by checkmate or knockout. It is also possible to win by time penalty as in normal speed chess, and by boxing decision if there is a stalemate (tie) in the chess.[3]
Typically events are held in a standard boxing ring using standard armature boxing equipment and rules. The chess is also played in the ring with the table, board and seating being moved in and out of the ring for each round. Although the two elements of the sport seem juxtaposed the transition from boxing to chess is a unique and key element of the sport, focussing on the chess becoming increasingly difficult as the boxing rounds progress.
The governing bodies of chessboxing are the World Chessboxing Association (WCBA) and the World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO)[4]
Chessboxing was invented by French comic book artist Enki Bilal and adapted by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh as an art performance[5][6] and has subsequently grown into a competitive sport.[7][8][9] Chessboxing is particularly popular in the United Kingdom, India, Finland and Russia.[10]Chess boxing is a global sport with London hosting roughly twice as many chessboxing events as the rest of the globe combined and India having more competitive chessboxers than any other nation.
History
An earlier version of combining chess and boxing took place in a boxing club outside London in the late 1970s. The Robinson brothers were in the habit of playing a round of chess against one another after a training session at their boxing club.[11][12] The concept of chessboxing was first coined in the 1979 kung fu film Mystery of Chessboxing made by Joseph Kuo, where it referred to the Chinese variant of chess, Xiangqi. In homage to the film of the same name, the Wuu-Tang Clan brought chessboxing into the popular consciousness for the first time in 1993 when they released the song "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'.
The first chessboxing event was put on by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh.[13][14][5][6][15][16] Rubingh's idea to create a new sport fusing the two disciplines, chess and boxing,[17] originates from the 1992 comic Froid Équateur, written by French comic book artist Enki Bilal, that portrays a chessboxing world championship. In the comic book version, however, the opponents fight an entire boxing match before they face each other in a game of chess. Finding this to be impractical, Rubingh developed the idea further until it turned into the competitive sport that chessboxing is today, with alternating rounds of chess and boxing and a detailed set of rules and regulations.[18]
Early years
The first chessboxing competition took place in Berlin in 2003.[19] That same year, the first world championship fight was held in Amsterdam,[20] in cooperation with the Dutch Boxing Association as well as the Dutch Chess Federation and under the auspices of the World Chess Boxing Organization (WCBO) that had been founded in Berlin shortly before.[21] Dutch middleweight fighters Iepe Rubingh and Jean Louis Veenstra faced each other in the ring. After his opponent exceeded the chess time limit, Rubingh won the fight in the eleventh round, going down in the history books as the first-ever World Chess Boxing Champion.[22] London Chessboxing was founded in 2008 by Tim Woolgar after he attended a Chessboxing event in Berlin. The sport was an instant hit in London and across the UK. Since then more chessboxing events have been held in London (42) than outside London (21)[1].
WCBA and WCBO
By 2012 Rubingh in Berlin and Woolgar in London had become the two shining lights of the chessboxing scene. Rubingh’s events tended to have a more professional tone with Woolgar’s bringing a party atmosphere and larger crowds. The obvious thing to do for the two Godfather’s of chessboxing was to join under a governing body that could sanction fights and oversee the sport on a global scale. Unfortunately the two were unable to agree terms and talks fell through, leaving the sport with two governing bodies; the World Chess Boxing Association and the World Chess Boxing Organization. This period in chessboxing history was immortalised in the film "A BaBy Rook or Left Hook - The Story of Chessboxing"[2].
2005–2008: First champions
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Two years after the first world championship,[23][24][25] the first European Chess Boxing Championship [26] took place in Berlin on 1 October 2005.[27][28] Present-day chessboxing commentator Andreas Dilschneider was defeated by Tihomir Dovramadjiev (FIDE Master[29][30]) when he resigned in the ninth round of chess,[31] crowning the latter by being the first European Chess Boxing Champion.[32][33] The event was covered by a number of world popular magazines [34] and media, including Eurosport,[35] CNN,[36][37][38] the Los Angeles Times,[39] Die Welt,[40] and ChessBase.[41][42][43][44][45][46] A video report by German television channel RBB[47] presented the event in detail.[48] In 2006, more than 800 spectators filled the Gloria Theatre in Cologne for the world championship qualification fight between Zoran Mijatovic and Frank Stoldt. The 36-year-old Frank Stoldt, who was a former UN peacekeeper in Kosovo and Afghanistan, won when his opponent resigned in chess in the seventh round. After qualifying to fight for the title in 2006, Frank Stoldt went up against American David Depto in November 2007 in Berlin to fight for the first world championship title in the light heavyweight division. More than 800 tickets were sold for the event at the Tape Club in Berlin, making it the biggest chessboxing title fight to that date. Frank Stoldt defeated Depto in the seventh round and thereby cemented Berlin's status as the leading city in the chessboxing world and becoming the first German world champion.[49]
2008–2011: Growth
Chessboxing first received credit from the International Chess Federation FIDE, in April 2008; its president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, took part in a chessboxing demo fight in Elista.[50] In 2008, chessboxing clubs were founded in London and Krasnoyarsk.[51] Created in 2009, the Los Angeles Chessboxing Club was the first of its kind in the United States and was directly followed by the New York Chessboxing Club in 2010. The Boxer in Munich also opened in 2010 and offers chessboxing training. In addition to the WCBO's initially European and later world championships taking place, the scene at the London Chessboxing Club grew as well. In 2011, the first international club matchup took place, with Berlin and London in the ring.[52]
2011–2014: World growth
In 2011, the WCBO and with it the global chessboxing community made the biggest leap forward in its development to date with the foundation of the Chessboxing Organisation of India and its expansion in Asia, including Chessboxing China and the Chessboxing Organisation of Iran, which was founded in 2012. Furthermore, the third chessboxing organization in the United States, USA Chessboxing, was founded in 2011 and the European movement was being reinforced by the foundation of the Italian Chessboxing Federation in 2012. In addition to the WCBO becoming a registered association under German law in 2014, the Chess Boxing Global Marketing CBGM GmbH—called Chess Boxing Global, CBG—was founded; it as of May 2013[update] is responsible for organizing all professional chessboxing fights worldwide and above all, for the organization of the Chess Boxing World Championships.
The Chess Boxing Organisation India was founded in 2011 by kickboxing official and former Indian kickboxing and karate champion Montu Das. With this, the growth of chessboxing in Asia gained momentum, with the first Chess Boxing Organisation in Western Asia already being built in the following year by another experienced official in the kickboxing world, Fereydoun Pouya, who started the Chess Boxing Organisation Iran.
At the same time, the process of making chessboxing a professional discipline reached a milestone: The 2013 World Championship in Moscow was the first chessboxing event organized and marketed by Chess Boxing Global. With three world championship fights in one night, more than 1,200 spectators, and a standard of fighting never seen before, the first CBG event set new standards in the history of chessboxing, with Leonid Chernobaev leading the way. He has been able to make a name for himself with more than fifteen years of chess-playing experience, and in the boxing world as Marco Huck's and Yoan Pablo Hernández' sparring partner, and having fought over 200 amateur bouts. He won the light heavyweight title against Indian fighter Shailesh Tripathi after a technical knockout in the eighth round (boxing). Sven Rooch secured his title in the middleweight class division—winning against Jonatan Rodriguez Vega after the Spaniard resigned in the seventh round (chess), and Russian Nikolay Sazhin won the heavyweight title against Gianluca Sirci by checkmate. Thus, Sazhin (heavyweight), Chernobaev (light heavyweight), and Rooch (middleweight) would all go down in chessboxing history as the first Chess Boxing Global World Champions.[53]
In terms of its development into a mass sport, there was much success in 2013 and early 2014 for the chessboxing world. There were more competitors in the second and third Indian Championships in the summer of 2013 and early 2014 than in any chessboxing events ever before, with more than 245 fighters of varying age and weight class, taking place in Salem and Jodhpur, respectively.[54] Furthermore, the chessboxing community in London—under the command of London Chessboxing and the WCBA—has continued to grow constantly since 2011 and by now stages chessboxing events for 800 or more spectators regularly four to five times a year at the Scala, King's Cross.
Late 2014 also saw the Finnish Chessboxing Club being founded in Helsinki by five members. Since 2013, there has also been a Moscow Chess Boxing club.
2015–2018
Chessboxing events in 2015 were produced by London Chessboxing under the WCBA—two events at Scala, Kings Cross. The second event, in June 2015, The Grandmaster Bash!, saw the British, European, and IBF light-welterweight world champion Terry Marsh fight and defeat Dymer Agasaryan. Terry Marsh is the first professional boxer to compete in chessboxing[55][56] and has competed in three fights since June 2014 in London and still remains unbeaten in his career.
Chessboxing has also become more popular among young, poor women in India, where the sport has been seen as an alternative to traditional roles.[57]
Actual numbers of local federations are officially registered in some countries, such as: China,[58] Costa Rica,[59] Czech Republic,[60] Finland,[61] France,[62][63][64][65][66][67] Germany,[68][69] Great Britain,[70] India,[71][72][73][74][75] Iran,[76] Italy,[77][78] Madagascar,[79] Mexico, Netherlands, Philippines,[80] Russia,[81][82] South Africa,[83] Spain, Turkey,[84][85] Ukraine,[86] USA,[87][88][89][90][91][92] and others.
In 2016, then-FIDE president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, publicly announced to Top Sport his desire to include chessboxing in the Olympic games.[93]
2018-2020
Although there is no single governing body the WCBA and WCBO have remained respectful of each other and fighters regularly fight under both banners. London runs three or four large events a year and works with the Russian, Finnish, Italian and French federations. Although events are no longer run in Berlin Rubingh remained active in promoting the sport in several different countries that run regular events including India, Iran, Turkey and France.
2020-2021
Since the Global pandemic hit in early 2020 chessboxing has not be able to host live audiences although a pay-per-view event was hosted by London Chessboxing in July 2020. The chessboxing world was shocked in May 2020 to learn of Iepe Rubingh’s sudden passing sending the sport into disarray. Rubingh had just finished consulting on The Queen’s Gambit series on Netflix, which has been largely responsible for an explosion in the popularity of chess. Those involved in the sport across the globe are currently engaged in negotiation to bring the sport under a single governing body.
Rules
A match consists of 11 alternating rounds of chess and boxing, starting and ending with chess. Each round lasts three minutes, followed by a one-minute break. The chess rounds are played under time control, with a total of nine minutes allotted to each player and no increment added to either player's clock after a move is made.[94]
Decisions
A chessboxing match can end by any of the following:
- Victory by knockout or technical knockout in boxing
- Victory by checkmate in chess
- Loss due to exceeding the chess game's time control; see fast chess
- Loss by resignation in either discipline
- Disqualification of one fighter by the referee in either discipline following multiple warnings (for extended inactivity, overextended playing time, rule infractions, etc.)
- This rule prevents a fighter who is in an unwinnable position in one discipline from stalling to attempt to win in the other.
If the chess game ends in a draw before the final round, one more round of boxing is held. If this round also ends without a clear victory, the fighter who is ahead on boxing points wins the overall bout. If the chess draw occurs in the final round, the fighter ahead on points is immediately declared the winner. In either case, if the bout ends with both fighters tied on points, the one playing the black chess pieces wins the bout, due to not having the first-move advantage in chess. This scenario has not yet occurred in practice as of 2021.
Weight classes
Like boxing, chessboxers are divided into weight classes. Currently, the following apply to professional chessboxing events of Chess Boxing Global (as of October 2014[update]):
Men (17 years+)
- Lightweight: max. 154.324 lbs (70 kg)
- Middleweight: max. 176.37 lbs (80 kg)
- Light heavyweight: max. 198.416 lbs (90 kg)
- Heavyweight: 198.416+ lbs (90+ kg)[95]
Women (17 years+)
- Lightweight: max. 121.254 lbs (55 kg)
- Middleweight: max. 143.3 lbs (65 kg)
- Light heavyweight: max. 165.347 lbs (75 kg)
- Heavyweight: 165.347+ lbs (75+ kg)
For amateur and youth chessboxing bouts under the flag of the WCBO, weight classes are graduated in 6-kilo steps. Exceptionally, event hosts can classify into 10-kilo steps.
Particular requirements and training
A chessboxer must have strong skills in both chess and boxing to be permitted to compete in a professional chessboxing fight. The current minimum requirements to fight in a Chess Boxing Global event include an Elo rating of 1,600 and a record of at least fifty amateur bouts fought in boxing or another similar martial art. One deciding factor in chessboxing is that the fighters have to mainly train in speed chess; the skills required by speed chess are different from those for chess using classical time controls. However, chessboxing is not only the ability to master both sports but above all, to be able to withstand the constant switch from a full-contact sport to a thinking game, round after round. After three minutes of boxing, opponents have to face each other at the chessboard barely having taken a break, and have to then perform calmly and think tactically. This switch becomes increasingly hard for the athletes as the contest progresses.
To practice these skills, specialized chessboxing training is used, in which physical interval training forms are combined with blitz or speed chess games. Thereby, the fighters adopt the rhythm of a chessboxing bout. They will use exercises like "track chess" and "stair chess", in which training partners will play an 18-minute game of speed chess over six rounds, with intensive running exercises in between, such as 400-meter sprints or stair sprints. Other common methods of training combine speed chess games with strength exercises such as push-ups. The classic chessboxing training is box sparring combined with a game of speed chess.
Champions
Between 2003 and 2013, the chessboxing world championships were organized by the WCBO. As of 2013[update], they take the form of professional events under the auspices of Chess Boxing Global.
WCBA/WCBO (2003–2012)
World champions
- 2003: Iepe Rubingh
Netherlands – middleweight, in Amsterdam against Jean Louis Veenstra
Netherlands[96]
- 2007: Frank Stoldt
Germany – light heavyweight, in Berlin against David Depto
United States[97]
- 2008: Nikolay Sazhin
Russia – light heavyweight, in Berlin against Frank Stoldt
Germany[98]
- 2009: Leonid Chernobaev
Belarus – light heavyweight, in Krasnoyarsk against Nikolay Sazhin
Russia[99]
European champions
- 2005: Tihomir Dovramadjiev
Bulgaria – light heavyweight, in Berlin against Andreas Dilschneider
Germany[100]
- 2010: Gianluca Sirci
Italy – heavyweight, in London against Andrew Costello
United Kingdom
- 2015: Sergio Leveque
Italy - heavyweight, in London against Darius Rolkis
Lithuania
- 2015: Sergio Leveque
Italy - heavyweight, in London against Dmitri Pechurin
Russia
- 2016: Sergio Leveque
Italy - heavyweight, in London against Daniel Wakeham
United Kingdom
CBG (starting 2013)
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- 2013: Nikolay Sazhin
Russia – heavyweight, in Moscow against Gianluca Sirci
Italy
- 2013: Leonid Chernobaev
Belarus – light heavyweight, in Moscow against Shaliesh Tripathi
India
- 2013: Sven Rooch
Germany – middleweight, in Moscow against Jonathan Rodriguez Vega
Spain
Major organizations
World Chess Boxing Association
The World Chessboxing Association (WCBA) is a legally recognized umbrella organization for chessboxing. It was founded in 2013 and is based in London, England. English heavyweight chessboxing champion Tim Woolgar is its current president. The WCBA originated from the London Chessboxing Club after having separated from the WCBO. It was founded by Tim Woolgar in 2013 to accelerate the development of chessboxing. WCBO champions are also managed and recognized by the WCBA.
WCBA members
- UK Chessboxing Association
- Russian Chessboxing Organisation
- Italian Chessboxing Federation
- Spanish Chessboxing Association
World Chess Boxing Organisation
The World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO) is the leading umbrella organization for international amateur chessboxing. It is based in Berlin, Germany, and legally recognized as a nonprofit organization by the German government. Iepe Rubingh founded the WCBO directly after the first chessboxing fight in 2003. Its goal is to establish the WCBO as the worldwide organization for the sport of chessboxing. The WCBO aims to collect and link all active chessboxing clubs worldwide under one roof. It was legally recognized as a registered association by Berlin's district court in 2014. The WCBO was the official organizer of the chessboxing world championships until it recognized Chess Boxing Global, following its statute, as the exclusive marketing agent for professional chessboxing fights, in 2013. Chessboxing inventor and WCBO founder Iepe Rubingh is also the current chairman. The first honorary member is comic book artist Enki Bilal, whose comic inspired the invention of chessboxing.
WCBO member associations
- Chess Boxing Club Berlin (CBCB)
- Chess Boxing Organisation of India (CBOI)
- Chess Boxing Organisation of Iran (CBOIR)
- Italian Chess Boxing Federation (FISP)
- China Chessboxing (CBCN)
- Russian Chess Boxing Organisation
Chessboxing Nation
London Chessboxing is a brand under which the sport of chessboxing has been promoted since 2008[101] in London, England. Although the sport has been practised in London since 1978,[102][103] the home of chessboxing in London today is Islington Boxing Club,[104][105] where London Chessboxing hosts regular training sessions.
The first ever chessboxing event hosted in the UK under the brand was at Bethnal Green Working Men's club in Hackney by Tim Woolgar on 15 August 2008. Other notable venues include Chelsea Old Town Hall,[106][107] The Grange Hotel in St Pauls,[108] and the Royal Albert Hall.[109][110] Their events are hosted at Scala, King's Cross,[111] York Hall, and The Dome, in Tuffnell Park. The events are also broadcast on the livestreaming service Twitch.
In 2021 London Chessboxing re-branded as Chessboxing Nation in order to compete with Chessboxing Global; however, Chessboxing Global collapest following the death of Iepe Rubingh.
In popular culture
- In season 5, episode 17 of Elementary, titled "The Ballad of Lady Francis", Holmes shows the virtues of chessboxing as a way to train oneself to quickly shift the mindset from rapid action to calm, deliberate control.
- The Eclipse Phase sourcebook Rimward features chessboxing as a popular sport in one of the habitats on Titan.
- In 2008, american singer Reb Fountain[112] released a music video for TAB from her album Holster,[113] directed by Anton Steel, featuring Reb in a chessboxing match with New Zealand lightweight Dylan Russell.[114]
Chess boxing and science
In parallel with the development of chessboxing as a sport, the discipline has found an increasing place in several works by leading scientists who study the potential application of the concept in various fields.[115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127]
- The concept of chessboxing is of great interest to science seeking to optimize and increase the physical and psychological characteristics of athletes through the application of new methods and approaches, in order to increase human strength, biomechanical and intellectual abilities, and others.[128]
- The concept of the sport of chessboxing occupies a leading place in the research of scientists looking for new integrated methods and approaches applicable in the educational process to improve the general condition of adolescents, young people, and disadvantaged individuals.[129]
- In general, the main conclusions show the positive impact of the diversity of the sport of chessboxing, characterized by certain dynamics in a diverse environment.[130][131][132]
Chess boxing and mass media
- In Hungary in 2012, chessboxing was introduced by professional chess players and multiple women's chess champions, the sisters Judith, Susan, and Sofia Polgar. In the same event, the WBF / IBO middleweight world boxing champion Mihaly Kotai played a chessboxing match.[133]
- In 2013, the information and educational television channel Moscow 24[134] presented a report on the popularity of chessboxing.[135]
- In 2018, the official promo video SHAHBOX PROMO was presented.[136] The video shows the preparation of the Russian national chess team for an international tournament in Moscow (28 March 2018) under the auspices of the Chess Federation (Moscow, Russia) and the World Chess Federation (WCBO). The tournament was held and supported by the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. Among the participants in the cup were five candidates for master of sports in boxing, two masters of sports in kickboxing, one professional boxer (with a score of 3 - 0), two masters, three candidates for master of chess, three world champions in chessboxing, one European champion, and one silver medalist from the World Chess Championship.[137][138]
- In 2019, the book Chessboxer by Stephen Davies[139] was published.[140][141]
- In 2019, the St. Petersburg TV[142] channel presented a report on how chessboxing attracts chess players and boxers.[143]
- In 2019, Red Bull TV[144] officially presented a documentary on chessboxing.[145]
- In 2020, at an international chessboxing tournament held in the Netherlands, K1 multiple world kickboxing champion Remy Bonjasky[146] supported the event as a commentator.[147] The tournament was especially important because after seventeen years, chessboxing returned to the country where the first world championship was held.[148]
- In a review of the successful Netflix series The Queen's Gambit in 2020,[149][150] British Vogue sub-editor Ro Elfberg stated that her favorite sport is chessboxing.[151]
- In early 2021, Russian channel RT publicly promoted chessboxing in a presentation video, focusing attention on the sport's popularity around the world and its prospects for inclusion in the Olympic Games.[152]
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