Chess boxing
Chess boxing
Typically, events are held in a standard boxing ring using standard amateur boxing equipment and rules. The chess round is also played in the ring with the table, board, and seating on a platform being lifted in and out of the ring from the ceiling for each round.
2011–2014: Global expansion
The Chess Boxing Organisation India was founded in 2011 by kickboxing official and former Indian kickboxing and karate champion Montu Das. With this, the growth of chess boxing in Asia gained momentum, with the first Chess Boxing Organisation in Western Asia already being built in the following year by another experienced official in the kickboxing world, Fereydoun Pouya, who started the Chess Boxing Organisation Iran.
2011–2014: Global expansion
In terms of its development into a mass sport, there was much success in 2013 and early 2014 for the chess boxing world. There were more competitors in the second and third Indian Championships in the summer of 2013 and early 2014 than in any chess boxing events ever before, with more than 245 fighters of varying age and weight class, taking place in Salem and Jodhpur, respectively. Furthermore, the chess boxing community in London—under the command of London Chessboxing and the WCBA—has continued to grow constantly since 2011 and by now stages chess boxing events for 800 or more spectators regularly four to five times a year at the Scala, King's Cross.
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