Chess boxing is an official sport invented by dutchman Lepe Rubingh. He came up with the concept for the sport during a night at a bar, where a friend challenged him to a boxing match (for fun), as both have been training it for a couple years.
Inspired by a comic, Lepe decided to propose the idea of adding chess in between the individual boxing rounds and that's how the sport was born.
The rules of chess boxing are simple. A full match consists out of 11 rounds: six rounds of chess, alternate with five rounds of boxing, with each round lasting three minutes. Each fighter has nine minutes on the chess timer and a match can be won by either checkmate or knock out, which ever comes first. Exceeding the chess time limit automatically leads to a loss and in case of a draw in chess, an extra round of boxing is added to the match. If there is no knockout, the boxing points decide the match winner.
The first official chess boxing fight was held in a church in Amsterdam back in 2003. The two fighters were Lepe and his friend. After an intense 11 rounds Lepe became the first chess boxing world champion after the chess game turned out to be a draw, and Lepe winning the boxing match in points.
Today there are yearly competitions for the world championship title in chess boxing, and the sport has gained a lot of traction during the last couple years.
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