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I like playing chess and working out. So I combined chess and workouts. There are several variations, * Do X crunches every 2 or 3 moves. * Do X pushups/pullups/situps/skipping/etc every 2 or 3 moves. Disclaimer: I am also creator or a chess variation halfchess.com
Did you try with six?
I 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.
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/footba...
I like playing chess and working out. So I combined chess and workouts. There are several variations, * Do X crunches every 2 or 3 moves. * Do X pushups/pullups/situps/skipping/etc every 2 or 3 moves. Disclaimer: I am also creator or a chess variation halfchess.com
What a great game! I lost of course. I like that it makes the next game easier, and that you can play with eight or ten pieces. Did you try with six?
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> 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
One area that is different to a lot of other sports is that fights aren't stopped for bleeding often as it is very common for thai style elbows to open gashes on the face. A lot of experienced fighters will have scarring around the eyes from getting cut with elbows.
That said in the west fights are split into 3 classes (4 if you include novice fights) C which has no elbows or knees to the head, B which has no elbows to the head and A which uses All legal thai techniques
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In fact, competitive chess requires adapting a very merciless mindset and swapping empathy for "killer instinct". In one interview - with Peter Thiel, by the way - current WC Magnus Carlsen was asked about Josh Waitzkin. (Waitzkin is a fairly well known and highly talented chess player, whose biography inspired the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer". He's left chess for martial arts since.) Carlsen half-jokingly sai…
You are right chess can be harmful too. Those wasted hours studying and memorizing start-games and end-games and then as you say the hatred. Maybe it's good mental exercise but you might better use your time studying mathematics physics science or engineering and that way help yourself and others better.
My tongue-in-cheek point was along the lines that just because a discipline doesn't involve punching someone in the face - unlike boxing, called out for it by the parent comment - doesn't necessarily mean it's not a brutal sport... in psychological dimension, obviously.
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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
No, Thai boxing or Muay Thai is not a point fighting sport. There are knock outs. Kicks, knees, and elbows are allowed. There's also forms of karate that allow full contact.
But I look at Thai Boxing matches with flying knees, elbows, etc and that recent video where a fighter footswept someone and then kneed them in the head on the way down and I think "Fuck that."
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I play chess and have boxed and done martial arts, although never together in the same ring. I found chess more destructive than boxing — it serves little to no cardiovascular benefit, and can be hugely addictive. (Bullet chess and competition play can readily take over your life, and I've seen careers and relationships destroyed by it.) The fittest people I've ever met have been boxers. Yes, the risk of head trauma…
Right getting hit still hurts, but seeing somebody else get hit does not hurt so bad, once you start paying to go to see a boxing match. I'm not REALLY against boxing let people do what they want to do. But I think the viewpoint that it idolizes knocking other people out is worth bringing into the discussion. Ali was the greatest but even he suffered brain damage because of boxing I believe. And then Tyson was the gr…
So every single match I've seen has been won by the better chess player, and the boxing has just been an interesting diversion.
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/…