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What's the Deal with Chess Boxing? (2019x17)

: 17, 2019

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/U9uM30njce2 If yo→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: Who Invented Braille? https://youtu.be/RzC9Yerv00M In this video: Pitched as the “ultimate sport”, chess boxing is – depending on who you ask – either a seamless blend of the cerebral and the physical or a joke that got kinda out of hand… Formally invented in the early 2000s, chess boxing is the brainchild of a Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh who has since recognised the appeal of chess boxing as a spectator sport and worked towards legitimising it as an athletic pursuit. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/01/whats-the-deal-with-chess-boxing/ Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-25099024 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2005/nov/09/boxing.chess http://www.espn.com/espn/eticket/story?page=chessboxing https://www.wired.com/2013/03/laurra-pannack-chess-boxers/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25491642 http://www.chessboxing-global.com/about/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkf83hwMSyA https://deadspin.com/i-tried-chessboxing-and-i-will-never-do-it-again-1717048000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system