James Canty III, 33, of Detroit has only competed in the sport for three years, but has now won the super heavyweight ...

Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday night, ...

James Canty III, a Detroit native, is the new world champion of chessboxing, a hybrid sport combining alternating rounds of ...

And so, we begin a discussion of outside-the-box competitions with the aim of categorizing each one: Real sport or just a weird activity? In our first review, we will look at a competition that ...

Description: I went to New York City to see the wild combat sport of Chessboxing in person and investigate what it takes to ...

The rules of chess boxing: — A chess boxing match starts at the chessboard. In this version of speed chess, each player has a total of 12 minutes in which to beat his opponent. During a player's turn, ...

Chess boxing is the ultimate test of both brain and brawn. Two fights go back and forth between intense rounds of strategy and athleticism as they battle in a mental battle on a chess board and an ...

“It sounds like a gimmick,” admits Hip-Hop Chess Federation founder Adisa Banjoko. But chess and physical combat are being merged not only in the U.S. — where Banjoko’s group advocates combining chess ...

If you think you are smart and tough, then there is a sport for you: Chess-Boxing. Kyle James reports on this bizarre sport in Germany that combines the thinking man's sport, chess, with the ...

It's 1992 , the death throes of the Cold War. French artist Enki Bilal publishes the last installment of his epic graphic novel, The Nikopol Trilogy. It depicts the bleakness of life in a ...

BERLIN – Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday ...

What makes a better chess boxer, a boxer who can think strategically or a chess player who can throw a punch? According to Laura Pannack, a photographer who shot a series of chess boxer portraits at ...