Chess boxing, a sport testing both brains and brawn, has been steadily rising in popularity. It's been a big hit in Russia, ...

They throw a mean “check” right hook. It’s April 18and Max Medley is having an amateur sparring session at the inaugural Interclub chess boxing event at the iconic Gleason’s boxing gym in Dumbo, ...

Chess boxing, a sport testing both brains and brawn, has been steadily rising in popularity. It's been a big hit in Russia, ...

And so, we begin a discussion of outside-the-box competitions with the aim of categorizing each one: Real sport or just a weird activity? In our first review, we will look at a competition that ...

Nikolai “The President” Sazhin has been declared the World Champion of chess boxing, beating the crap out of his opponent before putting him down for the count with a fifth-round checkmate. Sazhin, a ...

Mumbai: In competitive sport, athletes frequently look for ways to evolve and reinvent. Siddhant Nath Jha took it several notches further. Once a budding chess player who gave up the sport briefly in ...

Men decked out in athletic gear are playing a round of speed chess in a gym in Mitte. They are dressed for boxing, but before they enter the ring, their battleground is the chessboard. “Chess-boxing,” ...