Who Invented Chess Boxing. It may not sound logical but a new emerging sport is combining the power needed for boxing with the brains needed to win in chess. Chess boxing was invented in 2003 by ieperubingh a dutch performance artist who came up with the idea of combining a cerebral game like chess to a physical game like boxing.
From india the game spread to persia when the arabs conquered persia chess was taken up by the muslim world and subsequently spread to southern europe. Rubingh thought about how ridiculous it is to combine two sports or disciplines that are totally unrelated to each other. In order to get successful in this game one must be an amazing chess player as well as boxers.
Chess boxing is a mixed game of chess and boxing rounds and the battles of chess boxing started in the year 2003.
The earliest predecessor of the game probably originated in india before the 6th century ad. It would take more than a decade for the sport to appear in. Chessboxing started 10 years ago and is still perceived as. The sport was first depicted in the comic le froid eqateur which translates to cold equator by enki bilal.
