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Athletes compete in a chessboxing match organised at the Cabaret Sauvage, in Paris on November 9, 2019. (Photo by LUCAS BARIOULET / AFP) (Photo by LUCAS BARIOULET/AFP via Getty Images)
PARIS, November 11, 2019 - Chessboxing is a young sport, result of the daring activism of its inventor, performance artist Lepe Rubingh. It was first conceived as an art performance and has subsequently grown into a competitive sport. The first competition took place in Berlin in 2003, shortly after the foundation of the World Chess Boxing Organization (WCBO) by Rubingh himself. Since then, this hybrid sport combining mental and physical prowess has been broadening its family, with national association - from Berlin to China, Iran and the USA - joining the WCBO.
Rubingh's first intuition originated from the comic Froid Équateur written by French comic book creator Enki Bilal, that portrays a chessboxing world championship.
A standard match consists of a sequence of 11 alternating rounds, 6 of chess and 5 of boxing. A full-length match starts and ends with chess. Each round lasts three minutes. A victory in one of the two disciplines ends the entire contest.
In the space of a single match, the transition between chess and boxing appears to be a binary separation of physical and mental ability. Nevertheless, the two disciplines are as much the same as they are different, representing polar opposites of sport, in what has been described as "A poetic Yin and Yang of sporting prowess".
In this picture taken by Lucas Barioulet, two athletes compete in a match organised at the Cabaret Sauvage, in Paris on November 9, 2019.
Rubingh's first intuition originated from the comic Froid Équateur written by French comic book creator Enki Bilal, that portrays a chessboxing world championship.
A standard match consists of a sequence of 11 alternating rounds, 6 of chess and 5 of boxing. A full-length match starts and ends with chess. Each round lasts three minutes. A victory in one of the two disciplines ends the entire contest.
In the space of a single match, the transition between chess and boxing appears to be a binary separation of physical and mental ability. Nevertheless, the two disciplines are as much the same as they are different, representing polar opposites of sport, in what has been described as "A poetic Yin and Yang of sporting prowess".
In this picture taken by Lucas Barioulet, two athletes compete in a match organised at the Cabaret Sauvage, in Paris on November 9, 2019.
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