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What Chessboxing?





Certainly, few know. Players simultaneously box and play chess. Actually, it can be understood from the name. The contest consists of 11 rounds in which even - this is boxing, and the odd - a game of chess pieces. In between rounds, players make minute break. For the first time this kind of sport appeared in France. One of the French artists came up with such a game in comics at the level of fantasy. Another artist embodied the fantasy to life. Since 2003, the year began to hold competitions in Chessboxing. The best player chessboxers today considered a resident of Belarus Leonid Chernobaev.

"Sleepy" party



In 1851, during the hours of the regular championship of chess players all ... asleep. Competition, of course, had to be interrupted. After that chess games become limited in time. As the limiter were hourglass, but in 1883 the Briton Thomas Wilson created the first mechanical watch chess.

Have you ever heard of the "Chess blind?»

One party is not allowed to look at the board, the other party puts the figure for it. The player must not only think through the moves, but mentally keep in mind the balance of shapes. The well-known chess player from Hungary Janos Flash managed to emerge victorious in 32 games, playing 50 opponents!

Most large and small chess.

In the Czech city of Orzheh are huge chess, which are listed in the Guinness Book of Records.



In Ukraine, it was made very tiny chess. One figure can be placed even on the cut hair. Its diameter at the base is 0.014 millimeters. The author of the project is to Nikolai Syadristy.

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