Competitive Chess Boxing: Brain Meets Pain in Iceland

[Scott Tortorice]

This is a tie-in to an event that occurred at this year's recently concluded EvE Online Fanfest. The article, though, is interesting beyond any EvE connection:

Competitive Chess Boxing: Brain Meets Pain in Iceland

The sport, which was conceived some 20 years ago and still in its relative infancy, has been huge in Russia, Germany and other European countries. It’s governed by the World Chess Boxing Association. Slogan: “Fighting is done in the ring, and wars are waged on the board.”


There’s not much of an American presence. There’s no national governing body, although David Depto has become something of a stateside icon among chess-boxing fans. But maybe we could take a lesson from our Icelandic friends and have a few Silicon Valley engineers go toe-to-toe in a bracket-style chess-boxing tournament.