Chessboxing

Following Andy Costello's good performance and much interest in his other sport at Torbay, I wondered if people would be interested in knowing more about chessboxing :

Chessboxing article in the Guardian

Chessboxing feature on the BBC

One of Andy's fights on YouTube

Chessboxing site

Boxers who play chess include Lennox Lewis, the Klitschko brothers and Terry Marsh.

Topic:

misc

Class:

G

Legacy nid:

180

Quotes

"The delight in gambits is a sign of chess youth... In very much the same way as the young man, on reaching his manhood years, lays aside the Indian stories and stories of adventure, and turns to the psychological novel, we with maturing experience leave off gambit playing and become interested in the less vivacious but withal more forceful manoeuvres of the position player."

Emanuel LASKER