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04.11.07
chess-boxing
yesterday I was guest to the chess-boxing world championship in berlin.
chess-boxing is a new sport combining chess and boxing - yepp, no kidding. sounds strange and like a joke but it really works and is exciting. a match is 11 rounds and the combatants play alternating a round of chess (4 min) and a boxing round (2 min). the trick is to play chess while full of adrenaline...
On yesterdays event in the tape in berlin 2 matches have been won during a chess round and one in the bosing round. the new (and first) champion is a german, frank stoldt (congrats!).
See also the extensive press coverage (for example spiegel) as well as the WCBO official site.
Thanks to iepe, wolfgang and marc for having me at the event!
The picture was taken with my n73.
Posted by Lukasz at 04.11.07 09:27
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