Chess boxing is the ultimate test of both brain and brawn. Two fights go back and forth between intense rounds of strategy ...

It’s the ultimate test of brains and brawn. Boxers are taking the fight outside the ring — to the chess board — in a new sport that’s all the rage in Europe. In chess boxing, two men alternate between ...

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, ...

A chessboard awaits the next round just outside the ring during a chessboxing match in Berlin in 2012 AP Images There’s a boxing ring planted in the middle of a London nightclub. So far, nothing too ...

BERLIN — Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin in the second round. But he had to take the queen to win the match. In front of 1,000 cheering fans one recent Saturday ...

What makes a better chess boxer, a boxer who can think strategically or a chess player who can throw a punch? According to Laura Pannack, a photographer who shot a series of chess boxer portraits at ...

BERLIN - Bulgarian boxer Tihomir Titschko's punishing right hook and fancy footwork were not enough to defeat his opponent. Instead, it was the stocky fighter's mastery of knights and bishops that ...

Every day we here at the BPP have a staff meeting and we all pitch ideas for future shows. Call it a pitch meeting, if you will. Sometimes a pitch goes over well, which means we do it on the show.

Madhavi Ramachandra Gonbare thanks her family and guiding stars — a cop and a homemaker patron; had won gold at international ...

Chessboxing is a hybrid sport that is exactly what it sounds like: Chess plus boxing, or, more specifically, a round of chess followed by a round of boxing, repeated until someone comes out the victor ...