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.
Members' chess sets
Quotes
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“The game of chess has never been held in great esteem by the North Americans. Their culture is steeped in deeply anti intellectual tendencies. They pride themselves in having created the game of poker. It is their national game, springing from a tradition of westward expansion… they distrust chess as a game of Central European immigrants with a homesick longing for clandestine conspiracies in quiet coffee houses. Their deepest conviction is that bluff and escalation will achieve more than scheming and patience (witness their foreign policy).” |
JH Donner |