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Re: Chess boxing

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Post by scott_s »

thesz wrote: post #81
_5meq wrote: post #63

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/…

Boxing at amateur level does not produce any noticeable changes in the brain: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2034739/ Please find boxing enjoyable again. ;)

Considering that we now know that repeated subconcussive hits over time can result in CTE later in life, and that even amateur boxers during sparring will suffer many of those, my priors are strongly in the other direction. It’s going to take many more studies coming to the same conclusion to convince me otherwise.

Part of my priors is my exposure to amateur MMA, and training and sparring with people who fought amateur MMA. You take a lot of hits in sparring, and some of them are hard enough to disorient you, even thought it’s not a concussion.

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by [deleted] »

crottypeter wrote: post #76
_5meq wrote: post #63

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'

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Re: Chess boxing

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Post by Retric »

humanrebar wrote: post #80
crottypeter wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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'

"Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears." 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.

Soccer does have brain trauma issues, from people bouncing the ball off their head. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/1...

Re: Chess boxing

#95

Post by wepple »

Theodores wrote: post #23

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…

“You may be surprised to learn that chess does get played in prison”

Growing up, I would have. But after moving to NYC my eyes were open d to how it isn’t “just a nerds game” and popular with a massively diverse group of people.. it’s really great to see actually.

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by relenzo »

boffinism wrote: post #69

I've seen a few chessboxing matches. The thing about boxing is that it's very rare to end by KO (especially at the level of your typical chess-boxer), so it would normally be decided on points. However, because it's speed chess they're playing, and adrenaline is high, it's fairly hard to get all the way to the final round without a checkmate. So every single match I've seen has been won by the better chess player, an…

But surely if you duff the other player up enough it messes with their chess game.

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by Ntrails »

_sdegutis wrote: post #44
zacharycohn wrote: post #28

During 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.…

There were days when I had time to exercise for 2-3 hours straight, and I figured I would save time by trying to write some code or invent some app in my head while doing jumping jacks and other workouts. After a few hundred of them, I couldn't concentrate on anything but the counting and making sure my form was okay, and after a while even that took a lot of effort to focus on.

I fine rowing on Ergs particularly hard work as cardio goes. There's no momentum stroke to stroke, so every single one requires full effort. When I did this at uni, my strategy for coping was to spend the entire time doing mental maths / projections for how much any drop in rate would impact my final time (and conversely how much could be gained by an increase if kept up until the end).

It's not hard maths, but it was the perfect distraction from the problem of dealing with how little effort I had left vs what I wanted to achieve. Trying to think on abstract problems was more than I could achieve. Not thinking about anything but my next stroke wasn't enough. It was (and remains) the perfect strategy for me.

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by daviddumon »

regnerba wrote: post #9

CCP Games holds an event every year in Iceland called Fanfest where they invite players for EVE Online out to hangout with devs, drink, party, learn about upcoming EVE Online changes, etc. I bring this up because most years they do something crazy for one of the nights. Back in 2011 they did a chessboxing match. Here was there promo/announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaBWBmYfqVQ And the actual match:…

CCP also have the best recruiting video ever made :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgvM7av1o1Q

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by s3m4j »

humanrebar wrote: post #80
crottypeter wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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'

"Unqualified, the word football is understood to refer to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears." 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.

HN isn't "regional" though.
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