the philosophy behind the chess boxing: "if you can't beat the game, beat the player"😂😂

I was chess boxing in the late 80's! I would beat my brother, then he would flip the board, and whoop my ass.

I secretly had hoped they would punch each other every time they capture a piece.

Nobody would believe me when I told them about chessboxing so this is great 😂

I felt like I was watching the plot of an anime in real life

Someone show this Joe Rogan

The real question is... Does receiving multiple strikes to the head affect your chess performance?

Everyone has a plan til they get punched in the face, or the rook moves to E-5.... Lol

Proof that people will watch anything, im about to invent Basketball checkers

I watched this on pornhub but it's called chest boxing

Never in a million years would I expect to see chess and boxing combined. 😳♟🥊 Rest In Peace to Iepe Rubingh, the founder & entrepreneur of this intriguing hybrid sport. 💙

Klitschko is already the uncrowned champ of chess boxing

This has to be the best sport we’ve created as a species so far

You know, this sounds odd and stupid, but it's incredibly smart. My boxing coach in high school made us play chess before every lesson and workout. When sparring or doing cardio, your brain sort of takes a backseat. You're left just to mindlessly listen to music or focus on counting. Keeping your mind in the game helps a lot.

Correction : Wu-Tang is the creators of The Mystery Of Chess Boxing

OMG...I LOVE THIS!! I boxed briefly in the Navy, and I have been playing chess since I was 10....this is no joke an amazing combo. People heavily underestimate how much strategy is involved in boxing, and chess is PURELY strategic. The stress boxing puts on your body and hence mind was clearly shown in this video...I am going to have to find it on cable now or at least watch some matches online!

Carlsen vs Manny Pacquiao!

I'm here just after watching The Queen's Gambit. This is the first time I've heard of chess boxing, looks cool.

"If it's almost a sport, we have it here."

Ah, I’ve been waiting for ESPN The Ocho all year. There are so many weird and fascinating sports out there that people should know about

McGregor v Mayweather rematch with this stipulation 😆

I wanna see RONDO v CP3 in this one. MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Imagine Magnus Carlsen playing against Mike Tyson.

Ah yes now i can really imagine hikaru vs magnus there. It would be a truly wonderful moment

Chess boxing? All royalties for this should belong to the Wu Tang Clan.

Im gonna make a new sport called boxetball where everytime there’s a foul and the player missed a freethrow, he has the option to fight the player who fouled him for 30 seconds. A knockdown is 2 points.

Yeah this was cooler in my head when I read the title lmaooo

Next game to make is Go MMA

I love watching boxing and I love playing chess.

The only chess boxing I know has Ghostface Killer!

Heard Terrence Crawford likes Chess. He can be the first Boxing & Chess/Boxing Champ

I want to get into this. This sounds awesome

Breaking News: "Computer beats human in Chess for the first time!" Human: Let's create a sport that computers can't compete in it. Yes, I'm talking about Chessboxing.

Can’t believe I’ve never heard of this before. I need this in my life!!!

When you have wayyyy to much time on your hands lol

Who came here because of The Queen’s Gambit Netflix Series?

*the white man listened to Wu Tang once and...* 0:34

I feel like nobody is here cause of *TheOdd1sOut*

Wait you just ate my queen OMG*** RAGE !!!! *** Next round..... KO

5:00 that nose pick lol

I came here after watching the Netflix series, The Queen’s Gambit, and saw a dedication to Iepe Rubingh at end. I wondered who he was so looked up his name and learned that he passed away earlier this year at the young age of 45. Very sad. 😔

This is really awesome!

I love that this is an actual thing

This is pretty dope

WU TANG!!!

I love this!!!!

Omg how can I get in contact with you for a debut fight please! This is like a dream come true!

This. Is. Nuts. Yet its very unique and challenging. Id follow this

Love this.

It's 2021 and I am lost for words on this one! 🤣

I didn't know this existed, and I'm sold on this.

That is freakin awesome!

Give Floyd or Tyson a chess for dummies book and it's a wrap...

Chess boxing?!! It's official guys.....Anime is slowly becoming reality

I would just practice the boxing part lolz

ESPN 8: The ocho, sick reference! 😂

Damn!!

Fascinating

This makes me want to go listen to day old Wu Tang joint " da mystery of chessboxing" lol

I think that if I played Boxing Chess, I would naturally just fall back on violence every time. 1st Round (chess): "Okay just keep it cool, I'm better at chess. By my calculations, I should win the chess game by round 5" ... 4th Round (boxing): "I SHALL DEVOUR YOUR SKULL!!!"

Ah I remember when I discovered chess boxing back in 2010. Great times

1:13 Tom Brady is that you

I love this

I’ve invented an exciting new sport called shin-kick speed-reading. The two competitors sit in chairs facing each other and they have to read a book as fast as they can while kicking each other in the shins.

So this is what Chessboxin is. Always wondered everytime I listened to the awesome Wu Tang song

And like that...I wanna train for chess boxing all of sudden

Mike Tyson would be a beast at the boxing part. The chess part I dont know.

We should sponsor this in schools across the nation

They need to do this with 5D Chess for a real challenge

I like the rules except the one where whoever uses the black pieces breaks the tie. That's incredibly not fair.

"Introducing the next new wave of combination sports... MMA BlackJack!!" 💀💀🤣🤣

We need *the Ocholympics*

Awesome!

Nerds way of getting to bash each other without getting too serious...

This reminds me of that Korean movie the DIVINE MOVE!

Where do I sign up?!

Cool idea.

i think we need chess960boxing or fischer random boxing. modified versions of bobby fischer on chess: > In CHESSBOXING so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory. So if you just brought them back from the dead they wouldn’t do well. They’d get bad openings. You cannot compare the playing strength, you can only talk about natural ability. Memorization is enormously powerful. Some kid of fourteen today, or even younger, could get an opening advantage against Capablanca, and especially against the players of the previous century, like Morphy and Steinitz. Maybe they would still be able to outplay the young kid of today. Or maybe not, because nowadays when you get the opening advantage not only do you get the opening advantage, you know how to play, they have so many examples of what to do from this position. It is really deadly, and that is why I don’t like CHESSBOXING any more. > [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules already, back in the twenties, because he said CHESSBOXING was getting played out. He was right. Now CHESSBOXING is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative. > I love CHESSBOXING, and I didn't invent Fischerandom CHESSBOXING to destroy CHESSBOXING. I invented Fischerandom CHESSBOXING to keep CHESSBOXING going. Because I consider the old CHESSBOXING is dying, or really it's dead. A lot of people have come up with other rules of CHESSBOXING-type games, with 10x8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things. I'm really not interested in that. I want to keep the old CHESSBOXING flavour. I want to keep the old CHESSBOXING game. But just making a change so the starting positions are mixed, so it's not degenerated down to memorization and prearrangement like it is today.

This is the future relegion

Enki Bilal, the genius artist. Chess Boxing in real life...not so sure. But, fun!

No James from the odd ones out is the inventor of chess boxing

I wanna do this. Im good at chess, and I like boxing

You owe the wu-tang clan some money my guy.

I have always wanted to see this brain in brone both working unison

This is creative

This is so dumb but I love it somehow 😂

I love both the physical sport and the mental game, it’s a comedy to combine both though imho.

You can thank Enki Bilal for the sensation that is chess boxing!

How is Da Mystery of Chessboxing (named after a kungfu movie of the same name) not in the background?

No joke this is actually really hard

Boxing can mix with any turn base game

Someone needs to invent boxballet (from 31 minutos show)

More of this

What a contrast lol

All credit goes to wutang clan for bringing that up.

Imagine if you had a ring shaped like a chessboard with a person on each space just like in the game and someone makes a move and if they encounter someone they have fight until someone wins

It's a Wu-Tang Clan song.

Honestly i wanna join in

shogisumo would be great in Japan

ESPN the ocho!!!