Chessboxing?
October 9th, 2005 by rsm
The First Rule of Fight Club is you do not run a Caro-Kann defense against a Queen’s Gambit.
Apparently there is a new fad coming out to combine the most popular brain sport and blood sport together. Chessboxing. I’m not sure I believe this yet. The global community is a bazar of interesting ideas ready for the individual to buy into at leisure.
In essence, two highly intellectual brutes start off with a round of speed-chess followed by a round of face-smash. And back and forth it goes.
I do enjoy chess, even though I am not very good. I’m not at the point I study all the different openings and midgame strategies, and I did very much enjoy having my ass handed to me by the Polg?ɬ°r sisters in Vegas. (Hot intellectual Eastern European women… ungh…) And I do find that I am far from one to back down from a fight. My reason is that generally I get caught up in the need to impose discipline on someone whose parents apparently failed to teach them how to act towards a lady, a clerk or a child. Sometimes my verbal corrections spur them to attempt aggression.
However, I’ve never enjoyed watching others try to give each other a concussion for cash.
But they claim this is real. It seems CNN has covered it as well.
So they are going for the Olympics? It would be interesting to see how mentally addled opponents deal with each other in speed chess and it’s probably a great way for those in the medical community to further highlight the mental degeneration caused by this sport.
The First Rule of Fight Club is you do not run a Caro-Kann defense against a Queen’s Gambit.
Apparently there is a new fad coming out to combine the most popular brain sport and blood sport together. Chessboxing. I’m not sure I believe this yet. The global community is a bazar of interesting ideas ready for the individual to buy into at leisure.
In essence, two highly intellectual brutes start off with a round of speed-chess followed by a round of face-smash. And back and forth it goes.
I do enjoy chess, even though I am not very good. I’m not at the point I study all the different openings and midgame strategies, and I did very much enjoy having my ass handed to me by the Polg?ɬ°r sisters in Vegas. (Hot intellectual Eastern European women… ungh…) And I do find that I am far from one to back down from a fight. My reason is that generally I get caught up in the need to impose discipline on someone whose parents apparently failed to teach them how to act towards a lady, a clerk or a child. Sometimes my verbal corrections spur them to attempt aggression.
However, I’ve never enjoyed watching others try to give each other a concussion for cash.
But they claim this is real. It seems CNN has covered it as well.
So they are going for the Olympics? It would be interesting to see how mentally addled opponents deal with each other in speed chess and it’s probably a great way for those in the medical community to further highlight the mental degeneration caused by this sport.