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Chessboxing?
2005-10-12, 5:17 AM #1
Quote:
A spokesperson said: "The basic idea in chessboxing is to combine the No 1 thinking sport and the No 1 fighting sport into a hybrid that demands the most of its competitors - both mentally and physically."


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16867648-13762,00.html

http://www.chessboxing.com/

Right...
幻術
2005-10-12, 6:51 AM #2
Holy ****!
They've actually done it! It's inspired from Enki Bilal's concluding part of the Nikopol Trilogy, Froid Equateur (one of my favourite comicbook works and artists)!

Totally ****ing awesome!
If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
2005-10-12, 8:44 AM #3
Hahaha... that's great. That would be pretty awsome to be in.
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2005-10-12, 8:57 AM #4
Maybe chess will stop being seen as so nerdy now.
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2005-10-12, 9:03 AM #5
That's the dumbest thing I ever saw.
2005-10-12, 9:03 AM #6
Wu Tang Clan ain't nuttin to **** with.
D E A T H
2005-10-12, 9:24 AM #7
Alternating between chess and boxing? Pssh.

I have a better idea:
- Life-size chess board
- Professional boxers for each of the pieces. Kings are the most powerful boxers in the bunch, followed by queens, etc.
- Two people who call out moves for either side.
- When one piece would capture another, the two boxers fight. Whoever wins gets to hold the place, loser is out of the game.
- Whichever team KOs the other's King, wins.

2005-10-12, 9:36 AM #8
Ha! That's great! Now we've got to have strategy games where units are people who fight each other to determines who wins.

[edit]DARN YOU MAZZT. That was my idea! And it would be better if it was wargame style, not chess.
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2005-10-12, 9:42 AM #9
I like chest boxing better. No think like watching the female division go out it.

harhar
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2005-10-12, 1:58 PM #10
Amazing! Terrific! Wonderful!
2005-10-12, 2:06 PM #11
That's a stupid concept. They haven't "created" anything.

When I read these posts, I imagined something like mZZt's idea and jokingly imagined big, tough boxers duking it out and then sitting down for a nice game of chess. Imagine my laughter when my joke turned out to be true.

(there was a lot of laughter)

This is... I mean... this is just so ridiculous. It's like Nascar drivers racing a few laps and then exiting their cars to play a few rounds of lawn bowling. -_-

I'm not trying to be funny. It's just... gah...
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2005-10-12, 2:08 PM #12
Haha, lawn bowling. :)

Lawn bowling is funny.

And I'm retarded.wtmklewnji
2005-10-12, 3:01 PM #13
Kind of reminds me of Battlechess...
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2005-10-12, 3:32 PM #14
Battlechess was the best chess game ever.
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2005-10-12, 3:33 PM #15
Indeed. Watching the pieces kill each other was great fun. :)
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2005-10-12, 4:53 PM #16
so... wait, they actually just box then play some chess?

how does this actually work?
The Gas Station
2005-10-12, 4:57 PM #17
Well, there's even a Wiki entry on it.

Quote:
A match between two opponents consists of up to eleven alternating rounds of boxing and chess sessions, staring with a four-minute chess round followed by two minutes of boxing and so on. Between rounds there is a 1 minute pause, during which competitors change their gear. The form of chess played is "blitz chess" in which competitors have a total of twelve minutes. Competitors may win by knockout, checkmate, a judge's decision or if their opponent's twelve minutes of chess time elapses.


Seems like a mighty dumb idea to me, TBH.
幻術

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