Chessboxing - a combination of chess and boxing

Chessboxing (Chessboxing) - Hybrid sport, a combination of chess and boxing in alternating rounds. Fights Chessboxing officially held since 2003. Chessboxing concept first appeared in the comic novel by Enki Bilal «Froid-Équateur». Dutch performance artist Hype Rubingh inspired by this comic novel, embodied the idea zhizn.

Combat consists of 11 rounds, the odd rounds - chess (or rather, "speed chess"), the even - boxing. Between rounds - a pause length of 1 minute. Time control in a chess game - 12 minutes per player. A round of chess takes 4 minutes one round of boxing in the original version lasted 2 minutes. Before the World Cup in 2007 the duration of the boxing rounds has been increased to 3 minutes, since most of the previous games have been solved at the chess doskoy.

Victory is achieved by knockout, technical knockout, obscenities, handing the enemy a chess game of chess or delay their time. If the chess game ends in a draw, and in boxing will not reach the knockout decisive victory on points in boxing rounds. If the box and awarded a draw, victory goes to play the black pieces figurami.

If a fighter for a long time does not make progress in chess, he is booked by the referee chess. The second warning leads to disqualification.

Source: muz4in.net/news/chessboxing_ili_shakhboks/2011-06-15-20013#ixzz1PQbHNDov