The Wu-Tang Clan Classic: Da Mystery Of Chessboxin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJk0p-98Xzc
Funny how the song predates the sport by 10 years.
The song is predated by the Kung-fu movie "The Mystery of Chess Boxing" by 14 years:
Chess boxing
31–40 of 118 posts
Re: Chess boxing
#32I thought I might be good at chessboxing until I saw the champion. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/84863-World-Chess-...
.... of course the champ is Russian. Seriously, the only way this sport could be more Russian would be if they somehow added a vodka-drinking contest round.
Does that currently count as doping, in fact?
Re: Chess boxing
#33During the peak of my athleticism, another high level athlete friend and I got very interested in Chess boxing, but he was a FAR better chess player than I and I was a far better martial artist than he. We ended up settling on playing Scrabble-apples (non-referral link: https://www.amazon.com/Parker-Brothers-4979-Scrabble-Apple/d... ), sort of a "each player builds their own scrabble crossword in front of them" game.…
Scrabble-apples sounds like a clone of Bananagrams, even down to yelling "peel!" I wonder which came first...
Re: Chess boxing
#34During the peak of my athleticism, another high level athlete friend and I got very interested in Chess boxing, but he was a FAR better chess player than I and I was a far better martial artist than he. We ended up settling on playing Scrabble-apples (non-referral link: https://www.amazon.com/Parker-Brothers-4979-Scrabble-Apple/d... ), sort of a "each player builds their own scrabble crossword in front of them" game.…
Scrabble-apples sounds like a clone of Bananagrams, even down to yelling "peel!" I wonder which came first...
Bananagrams (2006) is before Scrabble Apple (2009). Scrabble Apples is Hasbro so likely a re-licensed reskin (BGG doesn't list it as such though)
BGG also says that Bananagrams is a re-implementation of Pick Two! (1993).[0]
Re: Chess boxing
#35Wasn't there some weird flash game you could play that was narrated by someone describing chess boxing?
Re: Chess boxing
#36So nobody here sees nothing wrong trying to hit somebody as hard as you can in their face? And encouraging the youth to be good at it? Personally when I see a boxing match and see somebody hit in the face it hurts me. I think that's called empathy. Getting used to boxing means you get used to seeing violence and it doesn't hurt so much any more. Then when the moment comes for you to hit someone in the face I guess it…
(Speaking as someone who sees contact martial arts as a perfectly (mentally-) healthy activity ...)
I've known several amateur fighters, and they all report that the decision to actually attack their opponent in anger is the hardest step for most people making the transition from training for fitness to actual competitive fighting.
Two of those people were exceptions, though: one was a junior lawyer whose approach to her first fight earned her the nickname "Basher", and the second a cleaned-up ex-gang member who used to fight for fun in bars.
I've often wondered whether Basher was merely applying the same mindset she learned as a lawyer to the ring.
Re: Chess boxing
#37I thought I might be good at chessboxing until I saw the champion. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/84863-World-Chess-...
.... of course the champ is Russian. Seriously, the only way this sport could be more Russian would be if they somehow added a vodka-drinking contest round.
Somebody seriously needs to write a strategy article on drunken chess boxing.
Re: Chess boxing
#38So nobody here sees nothing wrong trying to hit somebody as hard as you can in their face? And encouraging the youth to be good at it? Personally when I see a boxing match and see somebody hit in the face it hurts me. I think that's called empathy. Getting used to boxing means you get used to seeing violence and it doesn't hurt so much any more. Then when the moment comes for you to hit someone in the face I guess it…
The violence that is conducted by people who mutually agree to inflict it upon each other has nothing to do with the violence that is conducted upon those who have made no choice in the matter.
Perhaps empathy isn't so useful if you're lacking objectivity. Or perhaps failing to understand why people do the thing they dos means you don't have as much empathy as you think.
Re: Chess boxing
#39Wasn't there some weird flash game you could play that was narrated by someone describing chess boxing?
Frog Fractions? http://twinbeard.com/frog-fractions/
Edit: Just replayed it to that point. It's not talking about chess boxing, just (a very incorrect history of) normal boxing.
Re: Chess boxing
#40Can't resist the chance to recommend the Japanese comic Bunburyoutou (文武両闘).
There is a free trial (in Japanese) at http://maoh.dengeki.com/try/bunburyoutou/index.html but that is geoblocked an image search using the kanji above should give you the idea.
Basically the author took the idea of chess boxing and then let his imagination run wild. For example: In one contest the fighters competed to factor a series of increasingly large numbers, with the winner getting the sum of the factors in seconds for a free attack on their opponent.