August 22, 2004
Think chess is too dull? Boxing is too dumb?
Why not try Chessboxing?
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Apparently, there is more than one way to liven up a chess game. (nsfw)
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I have always been fascinated that boxing seems to be the second most enjoyed sport by sports "intellectuals." God knows they love baseball. They tolerate basketball. They loathe football. But for some reason they really enjoy, respect, and analyze boxing. As for chessboxing, I am waiting anxiously for a populatity explosion of Blowjobaccounting.
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Biting someone's ear off is ever so intellechewal, doncha know. My Brief Career as a Boxer, by beeswacky: My friend Juddy lived across the street from our house when I was a kid, and for some reason his mother (no, not his father) thought it would be fun to place a pair of boxing gloves on each of us so we could learn to box. So I listened to her instructions, then kept my left arm straight and socked him in the face with my right. His nose bled copiously. Then I fainted. We were about eight or nine at the time, and remained friends despite this gorey interlude.
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Why not Chess-Russian Roulette?
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Why not encourage Ms Juju to post here more? *great big wave*
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I'm a little disappointed that Chessboxing is just alternating rounds of each sport. Seems to me it would be pretty cool if the sports influenced each other, like a player could elect to box her way out of certain piece-captures (not all of them, since then the intellectual aspect of chess would then play second fiddle.) Or maybe the winner of the boxing round would gain a normally illegal move or something. Yeah, that'd be cool.
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i think enki bilal came up with this first in the third volume of nikopol trilogy c. 1992. the nikopol trilogy is quite good, unlike the movie (immortel) it inspired.
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*great big wave back to Wolof!*