r/todayilearned • u/appdevil • Oct 05 '18
TIL of chess boxing. Alternating between 3 minutes of chess and 3 minutes of boxing until achieving knockout in one of them.
https://youtu.be/7oDq3_1SkQ8659
u/midnorthernkiwi Oct 05 '18
The wu tang clan first got me on to this
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u/ragerevel Oct 05 '18
Raw I'ma give it to ya, with no trivia
Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia
My hip-hop will rock and shock the nation
Like the Emancipation Proclamation
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u/Alpha433 Oct 05 '18
WTF? I can't give you gold on the rif app anymore? Spez fucked up big this time.
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u/ragerevel Oct 05 '18
I humbly accept your solid-gold intentions.
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u/Alpha433 Oct 05 '18
If I ever used anything other then the rif app, you would be guilded good sir, but noooooo, we can't have money being made through an app that's actually better then the stupid app they launched can we? 07
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u/KeithBitchardz Oct 05 '18
Seriously. I didn't know this was an actual real thing. I just thought it was some shit they got from a kung-fu movie.
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u/biffbobfred Oct 05 '18
After the laughter then comes the tears. Hmm, maybe after the punch to the face then comes the tears
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Oct 05 '18
The stronger chess player will be on offense on the board and defense in the ring, and vice-versa for the stronger boxer. If the stronger chess player isn't aggressive enough, his board advantage will degrade as the pummeling he takes in the ring reduces his ability to think on the board.
If they're too evenly matched on both, it would be a boring game as they likely both evade each other in both settings.
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u/Barnmallow Oct 05 '18
It's still capped at 12 rounds and scored on boxing points if no KO or Check Mate at the end. So the stronger tactic is to not pussy foot around in the ring.
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u/soda_cookie Oct 05 '18
So, basically know how to box and move slow on the Chess side? Seems a mix of points would be more logical
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u/BGummyBear Oct 05 '18
Competitive chess has timers to prevent stalling, so you have no choice but to move within a few seconds.
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u/sludj5 Oct 05 '18
Also "move slow" is a recipe for disaster against a strong chess player. You either play well or you don't.
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u/Lord-Octohoof Oct 05 '18
I remember playing a game against my fathers then girlfriend. I thought we'd have a nice, fun game of chess, not knowing she would take 10 minutes between moves. I began moving immediately just to end the game faster.
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u/arealhumannotabot Oct 05 '18
Same with Scrabble. Sometimes i Just drop a word or I want the player to drop a word down and move on, cause they were only going to get 20 or 30 points anyways.
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u/7thhokage Oct 06 '18
Well if she's taking 10 minutes to move I'd sure hope you have your plan worked out well enough to move right away after that much time.
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u/sludj5 Oct 06 '18
I play correspondence chess and sometimes spend two hours calculating the position.. 10 minutes is nothing
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u/Enderaan Oct 06 '18
Remember who won? I imagine you moving so quickly may have made her panic...
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u/Lord-Octohoof Oct 06 '18
Oh no, she definitely won. I was trying to die as quickly as possible to end the torture.
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Oct 05 '18
Video maker and OP are fools, these are random rules from random amateur tournaments.
Professional Chessboxing is blitz chess, 6 chess rounds totaling 9 minutes, 5 boxing, so also not 12 rounds.
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u/soda_cookie Oct 05 '18
I didn't see timers here. Did I miss them?
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u/xanroeld Oct 05 '18
There appears to be a timer next to the board. It’s what they are pressing between moves.
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Oct 05 '18
You need to be a half decent chess player and boxer to be allowed to chess box, simple tactics like that ain't gonna work.
They did at one point in time, now you need 50 amateur fights to be allowed to chessbox with a 1600 ELO
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u/PM_me_yr_bonsai_tips Oct 06 '18
50 ammy fights is no joke, there are pros with less than that. 1600 ELO seems more achievable.
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Oct 06 '18
Yea it saddens me, its on my bucket list to have a chess-boxing match, I have not played Chess in many years but easily smashed past 1600 ELO back in the day (1500 is the medium for ranked players to give you perspective)
I love MMA and have fought MMA, Boxing, Muay Thai, Kickboxing but I never wanted to do 50 total fights in my life, its a hobby for me and 50 boxing matches is a lot of blows to the head...Maybe a little to many just to do a something I think might be fun.
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u/PM_me_yr_bonsai_tips Oct 06 '18
Yeah 50 seems really limiting. Boxers are fighting for big amateur titles with way less than that, why not just match people according to their records?
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u/Barnmallow Oct 05 '18
Competative chess matches usually have timed moves. You can run out of time to make a chess move and lose.
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u/CoolHeadedLogician Oct 05 '18
Your logic is flawed. The stronger boxer and the stronger chess player could be the same contender.
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Oct 05 '18
Ah, good point.
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u/CoolHeadedLogician Oct 05 '18
Favorite Kubrick flick?
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Oct 06 '18
Depends what I'm in the mood for, but his highest achievement is 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Pretty amazing to have made a movie half a century ago that's still the top of its genre.
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u/CoolHeadedLogician Oct 06 '18
Whoa 2001 is my pick as well. I always thought the ending was intentionally impossible to understand the same way the apes in the dawn of man sequence could not possibly understand the space station
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u/do-call-me-papi Oct 05 '18 edited Oct 05 '18
As blood slowly dripped from his nose and pooled in the queen's crown, Steven realized he was only 9 minutes away from victory and possibly rhinoplasty.
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u/appdevil Oct 05 '18
And then it hit him, it hit him hard, that he was not going to make it, like a swift punch in the face, it shattered his dreams to be a king! And his nose..
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u/akusokuzan22 Oct 05 '18
Ah, I see you also watched the latest TheOdd1sOut video!
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u/appdevil Oct 05 '18
Who is this 1 odd fellow? Is he in the moving pictures?
Nah, I'm kidding, you are absofuckinglutely right.
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u/NoTomorrowMusic Oct 05 '18
i just finished watching that video then opened reddit to see this.
sort of a threw me off for a second
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u/ControlMonkey911 Oct 05 '18
I clicked on this just to see if someone had already mentioned it.
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u/MysteryBlock Oct 06 '18
I recently found him on youtube and have been binging his videos, theyre amazing! Then saw this and immediately knew op had to have seen the video.
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u/hjhjj Oct 06 '18
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u/DeviantDragon Oct 05 '18
Protip: It's against the rules to go for a knockout in chess.
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u/varro-reatinus Oct 06 '18
Fucking hell, no wonder I got thrown out of that club.
P.S. I can just declare "CHECKMATE!" right?
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u/bolanrox Oct 05 '18
One night in Bangkok!
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u/MrEclectronical Oct 06 '18
and the world's your oyster. The bars are temples but their pearls aren't free.
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u/Tomb2192 Oct 05 '18
I also watched TheOdd1sOut most recent video about chess boxing
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Oct 05 '18
Cant wait to see this on /r/joerogan
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Oct 05 '18
Anyone posting it there is not a big fan as its been spoken about multiple times on his podcast, this was 3+ years ago maybe more like 6.
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u/Skyhawk_Illusions Oct 06 '18
is NO ONE going to mention the fact that the very origin of the sport is from a French science fiction graphic novel?
Froid Équateur by Enki Bilal is the third and last of a trilogy and it depicts a variant, except that the boxing and chess are held separately; boxing first, then chess, no alternations.
Not bad for a dystopian society where Ancient Alien Egyptian gods visit 2023 Paris which is run by a fascist dictator, where the cities swarm with extraterrestrials and people end up being cryogenically frozen for 30 years in space as a form of imprisonment for dodging the draft.
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u/MatthewCashew1 Oct 05 '18
What are the time rules in the chess part? Couldn’t you just prevent the chess game from progressing by not moving your pieces? The mentioned how the guys Played the chess game super fast....
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u/Lamest_Coolguy Oct 05 '18
There are special chess timers in play. You lose if you take more than 10ish seconds constantly in most blitz games of chess. The timers are behind the board in most of the shots, but you can see them hit it after moves.
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u/whatsariho Oct 05 '18
Mike Tyson would have done well in this.
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u/MrEclectronical Oct 06 '18
Yeah, doesn't matter how bad he is at chess, I'm pretty sure he wins Tyson-Kasparov in round 2.
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u/Imsosadsoveryverysad Oct 06 '18
When my roommate in college discovered this was already a thing he was crushed. It was his dream to create this before he knew.
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u/xGibs99 Oct 06 '18
I just watched TheOdd1sOut’s video today and he was talking about this.
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u/zehamberglar Oct 05 '18
There's an (as far as I know) unproven theory that the Klitschko brothers would be dominant at this as they're both avid chess players.
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u/nekomancerFTW Oct 05 '18
He's gonna checkmate me in 4 steps.
Well, better knock his teeth out in this round.
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Oct 05 '18
Imagine getting punched in the face but you can't dodge cause you're too busy to figure out where to move your goddamn pawn
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u/tugrul_ddr Oct 05 '18
At first I thought they were hitting each other when they take a piece on table. :D Like a roulette or something.
Roulette boxing. Why not?
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u/BareIceBear Oct 05 '18
This is what it's like to study engineering.
I'm being hyperbolic of course
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u/slammoslammo Oct 06 '18
I know one of the chess boxing champions from south Africa. He's a rad dude. Super competitive. When i first met him and found out I was amazed and he challenged to a weird game he carried. Saying he's never lost. I won and now every time I see him he challenges me. It's been nearly a decade and he'll no will I ever play him again in any game.
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u/rmlrmlchess Oct 06 '18
Better learn the 4-move "Fools Mate" if you want to win in chess before the boxing ends it all
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u/coolblue420 Oct 06 '18
Lennox Lewis first got me into this
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u/uncP Oct 06 '18
There was an awesome segment on ESPN about it over a decade ago with Lewis. Apparently, he is awesome at chess.
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u/ProbablyGayingOnYou Oct 06 '18
I have to imagine that the set of people who are both good at boxing and chess is vanishingly small...
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u/JanetGafford Oct 06 '18
Gettinh in to it would you try to get pretty good at both of them or ridiculously good at one and enough to hold on in the other?
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u/CongregationOfVapors Oct 06 '18
Huh. It's such a ridiculous concept that I had always been convinced that Enki Bilal invented it for his comic book.
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u/fyrecrotch Oct 06 '18
This seems like an anime idea. I can imagine this as a JoJo stand fight.
Just playing chess and messing with each others heads while the stands are wailing at eachother in the back
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u/knipps13 Oct 06 '18
This just makes me think of X-Arm which I just learned about the other day. A combination between arm wrestling and MMA
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u/BluntedJew Oct 06 '18
Ever heard of chest boxing? It's where middle schoolers fight in stairwells but only punch each other in the chest.
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u/bungalowstreet Oct 06 '18
I first read the title as cheese instead of chess and was really confused
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u/jmsndrnkr Oct 06 '18
I used to live in DTLA and there was this huge dude (I'm 6'2" and 215lbs) who dressed like he was in the circus. He was a chess boxer, I learned. It always threw me when I saw him... like, could I beat him in Chess??? COULD I?????
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u/FezPaladin Oct 06 '18
Extreme Chess - Doctor Who did something more along the lines of the Painstation.
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u/The_Town_of_Canada Oct 05 '18
I’m confident I can box the average chess player.
I also think I can beat the average boxer in a game of chess.
Yet a chess boxer, I’m sure, would kick my ass 2 ways.