Chess and boxing?

[supton]

As in, merging both sports together.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

Quote:
A chessboxing fight consists of 11 rounds, 6 rounds of chess and 5 rounds of boxing. Chess and boxing rounds alternate, beginning and ending with a round of chess. Each round lasts three minutes, regardless of whether it involves chess or boxing. The total amount of chess playing time is 18 minutes, making it 9 minutes each player. After each chess round, the exact setup is digitally recorded and then repositioned before the following chess round. The breaks in between the chess and boxing rounds usually last 60 seconds.


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I wanted to look up if I could promote pawns as many times as I wanted to, and stumbled across the above. Wowzer, never knew.

 

[Leo99]

I'd bet on the better boxer.

 

[cjcride]

You can promote 8 pawns. You could have 9 queens.

 

[supton]

Originally Posted By: cjcride
You can promote 8 pawns. You could have 9 queens.


Yeah, found that out, all set there. Now I just need to learn the rest of the game.

 

[SumpChump]

Wow, you stumbled upon the world's saddest sport. I used saddest rather than dumbest because that sounds too subjective. Has our world really gotten THAT boring that we now can't come up with new stuff?

I find boxing compelling to watch but now that I am older, I realize how stupid bashing ones head until brain damaged really is. I actually think it is dumber than doing drugs. And I hate drugs. At least drugs lets you escape your mental anguish and hopefully you O.D. Quickly while on a high. Parkinsonian head bashing just defies all logic. My pops sits paraplegic and some perfectly healthy guys meanwhile are bashing each others heads..... Go figure

 

[JamesBond]

youtube

Did someone say chessboxing?

 

[grampi]

Sounds about as plausible as under water shuffle board...