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Someone had also had a banner which read "Take his queen, punch his spleen"
You may be surprised to learn that chess does get played in prison, not by many people but those that do indulge can end up extremely good at it after a year or two (or more!!!) inside. In this other world of chess there can be betting involved too, so the stakes can be high, which is good for improving skill levels. After all, who wants to lose a game if one's mates have bet significant sums on you winning? Chess bo…
Some of theses chess addicted inmates become really good. Bloodgood, for example became 2700+. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bloodgood
This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, football, etc disgusting. I'm not just being a pretentious nerd, I actually like sports and I used to love watching boxing / MMA. It is so so so much worse than what we thought. Dave Mirra, Chris Benoit, Aaron Hernandez, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chron... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/…
Even without the long-term damage associated with CTE, there is limited intellectual value to any sport that involves hitting others in the head.
I find it interesting to watch combat sports, because it's like an experiment in human physique and psychology that reveals of what kind of self defense is actually effective and how humans function under extreme conditions. For me, that is valuable even if I never got in a fight for the rest of my life.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Getting used to boxing means you get used to seeing violence and it doesn't hurt so much any more. I practiced thai boxing for many years and it may sound odd, but I don't really see boxing as a violent sport, no more than let say soccer. I've never hit anyone (other than on a ring) and never will, and I hate violence as much as most people. In the context of boxing I see hitting as a technical move. Besides the oc…
Isn't thai-boxing like Karate or fencing where you stop before you actually hurt the opponent, having shown that you could do it? Whereas in boxing there is no such conception of stopping before you actually hit. Does boxing cause brain damage? This article says: "Almost certainly": https://www.livescience.com/1519-boxing-brain-damage.html
The most important thing about chess boxing is that it was inspired by an awesome sci-fi comic by an even more awesome artist: Enki Bilal. If you haven't already, you should read his comics, at least the Nikopol Trilogy.
I totally agree with you, awesome comics! I was so surprised to see in the first lines of the Wikipedia page that "Chessboxing was invented by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh.". I find this attribution quite controversial, even if Enki Bilal is cited later in the article. A better wording could have been "Chessboxing was invented by Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh, inspired by French artist Enki Bilal’s c…
The idea of the sport itself is explicit in the Nikopol comics: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=isch&q=enki+bilal+ch...
This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, football, etc disgusting. I'm not just being a pretentious nerd, I actually like sports and I used to love watching boxing / MMA. It is so so so much worse than what we thought. Dave Mirra, Chris Benoit, Aaron Hernandez, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chron... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/…
Seriously the rest of the world calls 'Soccer': 'football'
I'm not looking forward to the day a computer beats a human at this.
Each player has 10 minutes for the whole game, like in a classic blitz game, but the clock is 10 meters away.
Next one is on May the 19th.
http://www.echiquierdulac.fr/?p=2744 (in french)
This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, football, etc disgusting. I'm not just being a pretentious nerd, I actually like sports and I used to love watching boxing / MMA. It is so so so much worse than what we thought. Dave Mirra, Chris Benoit, Aaron Hernandez, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chron... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/…
Even without the long-term damage associated with CTE, there is limited intellectual value to any sport that involves hitting others in the head.
This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, football, etc disgusting. I'm not just being a pretentious nerd, I actually like sports and I used to love watching boxing / MMA. It is so so so much worse than what we thought. Dave Mirra, Chris Benoit, Aaron Hernandez, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chron... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/…
> This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, American football (handegg), etc disgusting. FTFY Seriously the rest of the world calls 'Soccer': 'football'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
...though association football does not have a concussion problem the way American football does. I'm not aware whether Australian or rugby football have concussion issues as well.