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In the end, though, the strong guys who weren't total noobs always won though... | ||
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"In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights." | ||
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jfazz
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On March 01 2010 15:05 JieXian wrote: I don't know if there's another way to look at it but Vitali doesn't make any sense to me. Of course nobody fights but fighting takes a lot of skill and mindgames too. It is well known that in professional boxing, that fighters avoid other fighters, against whom they feel they might lose. This is made even more commonplace with the many different boxing orgs all having their own champions. Champion boxers make a lot of money from endorsements and sponsorships - fighting is not their primary source of income any more - so retaining the title by any means is quite important Chess doesn't work like that. If you won't defend your title, you lose it immediately. So much emphasis is placed on competing regularly, that with the exception of players preparing for a world title match, everyone plays in any tournament they can get involved in. Aside from the super elite chess players, everyone is paid quite poorly, if at all, as the only real source of income, aside from teaching, is to place highly in tournaments - but that involves travel, accomadation and entry costs, all which fall on the player. So its a hard life. | ||
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Disregard
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edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessboxing "There was also a 1979 movie by director Joseph Kuo called "Ninja Checkmate"; the English-dubbed USA version was known as the "Mystery of Chess Boxing". It does not feature chess boxing, but it is probably the inspiration for the Wu-Tang Clan song "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" on their first album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993). Wu-Tang Clan producer RZA is a fan and advocate of the sport." | ||
flamewheel
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Survive the chess round, knock him out during the boxing round. Automatic forfeit! | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9110 Posts
On March 01 2010 15:17 zatic wrote: I wanted to find someone for a round of BroodwarBoxing ever since I learned about this. Unfortunately it's hard enough to find someone for either sport and next to impossible for both. Damn... I don't live in Germany. | ||
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Bub
United States3518 Posts
On June 23 2006 10:45 lololol wrote: Here's a movie about chess boxing ;] just lol http://www.metacafe.com/watch/143082/slap_the_man_slap_the_clock/ doesn't exactly look like chessboxing. In that it looks like you slap the vodka out of the opponent's mouth to win. | ||
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