It's extra difficult to get a checkmate when you have a concussion

Person 1: "So shall we settle this through our intellect through a game of chess or our physical prowess through a boxing match?" Person 2: "Both" And that's how chess boxing was born.

Because sword and gun duels are illegal, I want to chess box all of my enemies to settle disagreements!

This kind of reminds me of the quote "Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds." Who knew chess boxing existed before this video?!

I assumed Chess Boxing was invented much earlier - see The Wu Tang Clan's 1993 song "Da Mystery of ChessBoxin'"

Today I've been inspired ! I'm creating NASCAR /Monopoly. Everyone has a race car token.but with different tiny decals, so you can tell them apart. The first to past GO gets $200 and a glass of milk...it's a work in progress.

Are you entirely sure that the original inventor of this sport's name isn't "Bruce Wayne"?

Mad respect to these athletes. Hybrid sports are much more difficult than most people think. I tried biathlon when I was younger. It was incredibly hard to move as fast as you can on skis then suddenly calm yourself as much as you can to shoot at targets.

Sounds like it would be useful for training officers in military college

Chess Boxing, come for the ridiculousness, stay for the fascination.

I think it's a mixture of chess and boxing

At my Kung Fu school, I used to do something a little different. It was a regular chess game, except when you attack any piece (including the king) you would spar for the square. First to three touches in sparring won the square. The defender had to stay in a smaller inner square of the ring, meaning it was better to be the attacker than the defender. Also, rules about not being allowed to move into check were suspended. (Since attacks weren't guaranteed to win the square, you could totally lead with your king, which had some odd implications for tactics.) You had to actually attack the king and then win the sparring match. (Or if their king attached you and you successfully defended, same thing.)

The fact that this is a real thing makes me incredibly happy.

Instructions unclear. Went to a cross-dressing club and punched a queen. Legal help needed.

I've actually never heard about chess boxing before.

Da mystery of Chess Boxing

This whole idea reminds me of when leaders fought on the field and had to not only win the fight in front of them but also adapt their strategy as they went cuz it's basically the same thing except the "board" was in their heads

There are other sports/contests similar to this. Actually, I've taken part in Double Fan/Sword Thrust contests before. Double Fan is a game similar to Gin, only there are no court cards and Aces are low. You also play two hands of seven cards each and try to have winning hands with both but cannot trade cards between them. It is not a timed contest, but rather one where the first player to not have a play calls the hand and then they move to a bout of Sword Thrust, which is similar to Fencing, only long swords are used and the idea is to knock your opponent's sword out of their hand, or knock them on their ass. If five sword clashes occur without either of these things happening, it's a return to Double Fan, where the deck is reshuffled and the hand continues, though it is the turn of the opposite player to the one who called a no play before. This goes back and forth until one player has won with both hands two times, has knocked their opponent's sword out of their hand four times/knocked them on their ass twice with the latter taking precedence, or seven cycles plus a final round of Double Fan has passed. If the final Double Fan round passes without either player meeting the requirements for a definitive win, then and only then, does it go down to scoring. Any runs or sets of three are not counted in scoring, all else are counted, with high cards counting the most points. Yes, you want the lowest score possible. Every time your sword was knocked out of your hand, that's fifteen points. If you were knocked on your ass, twenty-five. If during a sword clash, your wrist was below your opponent's (what is known as Disadvantage), five points. If your loose cards contained any threes, ten points each (the inventor of Double Fan considers the number three bad luck and in a normal game of Double Fan those loose threes are a ten point deduction). If all four of the threes are either in pairs or sets or runs, minus ten points and minus thirty for having all four threes in a set (in a normal game of Double Fan having all four threes in a set is called 'The Bounty' and is worth thirty points). If during a sword clash you manage to apex the hilts, it's a deduction of fifty points for whomever had their wrist in the advantage, or a deduction of thirty points for both if their wrists were level (very common to happen). If, on the rare occasion one player has an Ace through Seven run with both hands (cannot win Double Fan this way), it's a deduction of one hundred points, which will almost certainly net a win. Of course, none of the scoring matters, like I said, if one goes out with both hands of Double Fan twice, or knocks their opponent's sword out their hand four times or on their ass twice. That's an instant win. These are usually wagered upon, but the wager can be anything as long as the contestants agree. I won three of the four times I've partaken in this; won a bronze ring, some sulphuric acid, and seventy-five thousand Raijin. The one time I lost, I had to part with a beloved doll. All is well though; she completed her collection so it's not the worst thing in existence. I only lost because I just did not have the cards to win; it was a stalemate in Sword Thrust otherwise. I never did win with the cards though; I always had the advantage in Sword Thrust because I train in the sword. I know how to strike weakspots and parry, and my opponents were just hotheads or looking for an 'easy' target, or whatever. It doesn't hurt to know what you're doing, but with cards, it's more luck than skill.

Really amazing! Great video and information 🙏

I never heard of this until now and I am greatly intrigued. I love the dichotomy

quizzes related to my career and math puzzles in place of chess and I'd be all about it. It would keep the spirit of the game yet rather with a mental challenge of skills that I want to sharpen. It would help me to think clearly in times of great stress/panic.

I can see it. There's also that one winter Olympic sport with skiing cross country and shooting targets. It sounds weird, but if you did a mile run to the shooting range and then tried to hit a target, you would be surprised. It's really hard to control your breathing when you just ran or ski'ed for a while

I remember reading that comic... Now I wonder how long it will take for someone in Japan to make an anime about chess boxing.

Hey Simon, the origin of the concept of chessboxing is a comic series by a bloke called Enki Bilal called 'Alexander Nikopol in the 21st century' I'm 100% sure the pretty accurate depiction of the sport predates the esrly 2000s you mentioned by decades. Cheers! (:

"Freud Équateur"... That sounds like it would mean something quite different from "Froid Équateur". XD

So its like a indoor version of Biathlon...with the mix of beening uped by the skiing and then the quick calming for sharp shooting...i get it...

Dang this must be hella draining mentally and physically.

What's the deal with moons on outhouse doors?

I could see this working in a Sci-fi setting with military officers being really keen on it. Since you got to prove you can think under duress, as well as fight tooth and nail.

What is the current dominant strategy in chess boxing? Aim your punches to solar plexus to deprive oxygen flow to the opponent's brain, so that you can win in the chess portion? Or channel the frustration that you feel from being outsmarted on the chessboard into some anger-fueled punches?

The real question is if “Da Mystery of Chessboxin” by the Wu Tang Clan has anything to do with actual chess boxing.

Watching this after the wcg finals of starcraft 2, it made me think about starting the competitors on a treadmill for 6 minutes, running as fast as possible to collect points that converts into gas and minerals that they get to start with in the subsequent starcraft game.

What about the movie "The Mystery of Chess Boxing" that came out I'm 1987? Which infulenced The Wu-Tang Clan who had a song in 1993 also called "The Mystery of Chess Boxing"?

I'm going to get a job packaging the boards and pieces so I can say I'm a Chess Boxer.

How do you sign up for this???

After hearing hte Wu Tang song "Da Mystery of Chessboxin" as a young lad 25 years ago I never thought they'd make an actual sport out of it

ever heard of underwater chess that is also a thing, atleast in the mindsport olympics.

My sons love MMA I watch it with them. Boxing is like ballet by comparison no choke holds no Elbows to the head . In boxing The bobbing and weaving is graceful upper cuts are clean and crisp. MMA is exciting but ugly. In a strange way chess almost fits with boxing as punches are thrown strategically.

I'm suddenly inspired to create the MMAML, The Mixed Martial Arts Monopoly League. "Will You Tap Out Or Go Bankrupt First?"

This is the answer that all the fathers of nerdy boys who wanted to get their sons into sports. "Junior, I put you in those chess classes that you have been begging me for" "Really dad?" "Yes, here, put on your gloves, you're starting today"

I still believe that Biathlon is the best example of a combination of two widely different athletic pursuits, cross-country skiing and target shooting.

I’ve clearly lived long enough to see what would be a mod in a video game come to life...

I rented an air BnB once in Berlin and it was the chess boxing headquarters as it turns out. Chessboards, boxing bags and all

You're top notch! ☺

Today I found..... ummm... hmm. It’s be interesting to use the chess rounds to track diminishing ability to think logically realities to the punishment sustained in the ring.

This and extreme ironing would certainly make the Olympics more appealing to me.

And the next amazing combo will be diving checkers. Weighted checkers pieces on the bottom of the pool. Obviously, nothing can go wrong here.

So where does the old martial arts movie mystery of chess boxing fit into all of this? It is way older then anything in this timeline and is part of the wutang clan series. I have a copy of it on vhs so I know it exists.

Sumo Melee. Standard Competition Super Smash Brother's Melee rules, with the twist that every 3-5ish minutes you have to pause the game, and go 3-5ish minutes in the Sumo ring. First to drain all 5 lives or to score the pin/ring out in the Sumo wins. Would go great with all the anime cons =)

I need to play this how do I sign up

It should be called checkmates and concussions.

Reminds of a time in college where a roommate and I decided to play some chess while drinking a bottle of vodka. Little did I know that we were training for chess boxing by playing chess while chemically concussed.

It good with the brain and body hard training on both ends

1......2.....Check Mate This needs an Olympic adaptation........ NOW!

Fighting already is supposed to use logic. This would be very fun, no switch of mindset required, for both are battlefields.

I like the idea but... combat sports are a perfect combination of brain and brain alone... boxing is very very very much a thinking sport to compete in.

brilliant

so basically it's like fighting games but with the cerebral part detached from the aggression part.

Good idea, if loosing at the chess portion makes you tilted, you can finished your opponent with your fists.

This is actually brilliant. You have to be intelligent and strong, and fast.

This is awesome

Mannnn don't even TALK to me about The Great Courses Plus if they don't have Chess Boxing! What a wild oversight!

What an interesting idea.

Hm. I thought this sounded ridiculous, but it actually sounds fun! I'm decent at chess, I guess. Never boxed before. But I think I'd get the transition thing down easily, not that it'd count for much.

well thats pretty neat.LOL Thanks!!

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If anyone from Paramount watches this channel, I think they just figured out the plot of Creed 3.

Should've called this video Da Mystery of Chessboxin'

I used to play the board game Risk and Boxing. It would start as a game of Risk, but someone would get annoyed and it would turn into Boxing.

This is interesting

What's next? Full contact golf?

This will never be better than Human combat chess!

Should have called this video The mystery of chessboxing

It's boxing with chess. Or chess with boxing.

Lets get this great combo sport going!

I'm 29 and was beat in chess twice by a ~12 year old tonight at a game shop. If only I had watched this video earlier... lol.

i was expecting a big board with real people as the pieces of chess, and when a piece is moved the two opponens will fight, the winner stays in the board and the loser leaves

I have a scientific question. Ibwas walking home in the dark and rain and i noticed that the light for my flashlight would hit the rain in a consistent pattern of light no light. Sorry if this isn’t well worded.

First you need to attack his abdomen and open up with Queens gambit XD

I learned about it through Wu Tang Clan, Mystery Of The Chess Boxer...back in the early 90s. The Rza from the rap group Wu Tang Clan invented chess boxing.

I always thought it was where 2 people would play chess, and the chess moves would correspond to boxing moves the boxers had to carry out.

You remind me of DD from ed edd & eddy but all grown up

Chess is the ultimate intellectual climax.

Here's a suggestion for a future episode: Where do British people's accents go when they sing?

So no mention of Wu-Tang at all?

First time hearing about it.

Never knew that Johnny Sin have a KZfaq Channel

finally a reason to learn chess!

Actually sounds really hard.

Magnus Carlsen vs Floyd Mayweather that would be the weirdest match ever.

This reminds me of Hebocon.

Da mystery of chessboxin' WU TANG!

"The boxers must wear gloves during the boxing part" and that's the part that REALLY needs to go if they want to take this sport to the next level. Not only will it decrease time in between rounds, but knockouts are simply harder when you don't have that padding to protect your hand. I heard about the sport and anyone I spoke to about it made it sound like it was the worst thing they'd ever heard of. I'm down if they get rid of the gloves. Like I'll join a chessboxing circuit yesterday.

The 1979 Film Poster for the film Ninja Checkmate (1979) : "The Mystery of Chess Boxing" images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51f-dRgVZVL.jpg There's also this gem from 1993...it ain't nothin' ta f*ck with kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prCbY9Nenp68qpc.html The Mystery of Chess Boxing film features a character called Ghostface Killer. ...hmmm..Why does that name sound familiar?? ...hmmmmmm... "Lee Yi Min stars as a young boy, Ah Pao, who wants to learn kung fu so that he can avenge his father's death at the hands of the Ghost Faced Killer (Mark Long). The Ghost Faced Killer, meanwhile is hunting down a number of clan leaders who all conspired to have him killed. Before attacking, the killer always throws down his "ghost face killing plate," a decorated metal plate with a red face. He then uses his distinctive five elements style." Why you no Wu-Tang, M'goodman? -A guy who clicked this video specifically for the Wu-Tang info-diddly.

Ah, Da Mystery Of Da Chess Boxin'.

I have trouble taking this very seriously, but to each his own I suppose. Plato would have been thrilled.

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The first time I saw this fantasical sport I thought it was a comedy skit... Great fun all the same

I so want to do chess boxing. Cause I think I'd be good it.

Do a video on why Jack and Jill bathrooms are called that and when did it become a common place use term?