Whether you are participating or spectating, ChessBoxing is an astonishingly entertaining and handsomely rewarding experience.
ChessBoxing training offers a unique opportunity to hone both mental and physical strengths in an integrated session that is challenging while thrilling.
The Beginning
In 2002, chessboxing was invented by Iepe Rubingh, drawing inspiration from the comic ‘Cold Equator’ (Froid Équateur, 1992) by Enki Bilal.
The audience’s enthusiasm led to chessboxing being developed into a serious sport soon thereafter, in collaboration with chess and boxing experts from Berlin as well as the Dutch chess and boxing federations, respectively.
The central theme in ChessBoxing is the fusion of cerebral prowess and savage-like vigour into a hybrid that tries its competitors’ limits both mentally and physically.
The game
A chessboxing bout consists of two opponents contesting alternating rounds of chess and boxing.
The match starts and ends with a round of chess, with boxing rounds in-between. The fight consists of 11 rounds, 6 rounds of chess, and 5 rounds of boxing.
The chess rounds are 4 minutes and the boxing rounds are 3 minutes. Each contestant is given 12 minutes on his or her chess timer at the commencement of the bout. Between each round is a 1-minute intermission during which contestants change their gear.
The bout is decided by: checkmate (chess round), flag-fall/time expiration (chess round), resignation/retirement (chess or boxing round), KO (boxing round), or decision (boxing round). If the chess game ends in a stalemate/draw, the opponent with the higher score on the card wins.
In the event of an even judge’s card with a stalemate/draw in the chess game, the contestant with the black pieces wins.
Challenges
The ChessBoxing’s approach to training is to combine a boxing training session with a chess challenge.
For which absolute training is required in the form of warm-up exercises, stretching, boxing technique and bag and pad-work, while we either play bullet chess (2 minutes per player) or solve tactics training puzzles during regular three to five minute recovery periods.
For more experienced ChessBoxers, there are 7-11 round chessboxing sparring matches with 3-minute chess rounds and 3-minute boxing rounds with 1-minute rest intervals in-between.
A combination of two different sports, one is chess and the other is boxing. Participants in the sport must be in both mental and physical condition to be able to defeat their opponent.
Hands that have limited time to move the pieces will soon be punched to show their strength to the opponent’s head and face.
This battle will continue round by round until one of the fighters surrenders to the opponent’s fists or is defeated in chess. When two fighters reach the end of the game but no one has surrendered yet, now is the time to calculate the points.
Final Words
Hands to fight in the ring along with the speed of the mind to move the beads is very important, Holding a fight in the form of six two-minute rounds of chess and five three-minute rounds of boxing, one in between, between two rounds (one round of chess and one round of boxing) and having only one minute of rest time has made this sport a lot of power-packed events.
The fighters need the right to fight on the ground with very high physical strength and mental strength.