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Re: Chess boxing

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Post by rhombocombus »

scott_s wrote: post #91
thesz wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 amate…

As a follow on, if the hit is hard enough to disorient you, it is likely doing damage. If I understand correctly, most of the accumulated damage in CTE comes from subclinical impacts.

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by zeveb »

galaxyLogic wrote: post #11

So 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…

> Personally when I see a boxing match and see somebody hit in the face it hurts me. I think that's called empathy.

It's also empathy to see someone hit someone well and feel the flush of success.

I'm not athletic, and have never been good at sports, but the very few times that I've done them and done well it has been exhilarating in a way intellectual pursuits never have been.

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by mrguyorama »

notyourday wrote: post #105
synesso wrote: post #30

I'm not looking forward to the day a computer beats a human at this.

It is already winning half of the battle.

I'm pretty sure if you shoved a heavy enough server rack containing deep blue into the ring, you would have a hard time knocking it out. In fact, you'd likely hurt yourself in the process

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by darepublic »

sacado2 wrote: post #103
dbasedweeb wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the words of David Mitchell (paraphrased) Mike Tyson would be a very good chess boxer given that after the first boxing round, his opponent would be unconscious.

And AFAIK, that's the reason why the first round is a chess round.

Tyson vs Kasparov. I think it would be easier for Tyson to avoid mate in 1 round of chess than for kasparov to avoid a knockout in one round of boxing

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by omginternets »

montalbano wrote: post #87
sneak wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even without the long-term damage associated with CTE, there is limited intellectual value to any sport that involves hitting others in the head.

Without going to boxing I never would have developed the discipline and endurance necessary for my university degree. How's that for intellectual value?

Likewise (MMA in my case).

Learning to fight generalizes beyond actual fighting.

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by V-2 »

jordan314 wrote: post #3

I thought I might be good at chessboxing until I saw the champion. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/84863-World-Chess-...

Well, he's the heavy weight champion though (formerly light heavyweight, but heavy nevertheless). They, too, have weight divisions in the sport.

Re: Chess boxing

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Post by zacharycohn »

dlbucci wrote: post #33
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.…

Scrabble-apples sounds like a clone of Bananagrams, even down to yelling "peel!" I wonder which came first...

Ugh I think I meant bananagrams?
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