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> “Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck”

Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing

It's such a funny sport. It's like serious slavs vs germans mostly and then you look in the audience and there's RZA rubbing his chin

who is RZA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RZA

Member of the Wu Tang Clan, the band behind Da Mystery of Chessboxin Super parent's link is about a sport called chess boxing

Weird. I highlight RZA, tap "web search" and he's the first result. Less work than taking the time to tap out "who is RZA?"

But then all the other readers benefit.

This is true. It's also more social.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKF3qcJh45Y this guy, the wu-tang clan's chief producer

I mean:

> The concept of chessboxing was first coined in the 1979 kung fu film Mystery of Chessboxing made by Joseph Kuo. In homage to the film, the Wu-Tang Clan brought chessboxing into popular consciousness for the first time in 1993, when they released the song "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'".

Though apparently the song itself is just entirely regular rap bragging, with nothing at all about chess, boxing, or the movie.

The one thing I don't understand is whether or not each chess round is a new game, or if the chess round is paused to start the boxing round. I'm just at the minimum requirement for chess, and not that many of my games end in a draw.

The chess game is paused each boxing round. The chess board is carefully lifted out of the boxing ring and brought back after the punching!

What do they say when a player is defeated, check out?

1 move each, then 1 boxing round. Boxing matches used to go on for an obscene number of rounds...

The chess round is 3 minutes. Like a normal chess match, each player has a clock and total time limit.

3m chess round, 3m boxing round, 3m chess round, 3m boxing round, etc

Someone needs to combine this variant with four player chess.

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