Following Andy Costello's good performance and much interest in his
other sport at Torbay, I wondered if people would be interested in
knowing more about
chessboxing
:
Chessboxing article in the
Guardian
Chessboxing feature on the
BBC
One of Andy's fights on
YouTube
Chessboxing site
Boxers who play chess include
Lennox
Lewis, the
Klitschko
brothers and
Terry
Marsh.
Members' chess sets
Quotes
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A quote from Richard RETI's Masters of the Chessboard(p 395):"In general, it can be established that there are two defenses against 1. e4, which make it absolutely impossible for the first player to take any initiative, and which give Black such an even game, without any difficulties at all, that it has now become useless in practice, since these defenses are generally known. They are the Caro-Kann Defense and the variation of the French Game: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 dxe4."Glad that's settled! :-) |
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