Chess boxing or chessboxing is a hybrid fighting sport that combines the two traditional sports, chess and boxing. The competitors fight in alternating rounds of chess and boxing. Chessboxing was invented by Dutch performance artist, Iepe Rubingh in 2003. What was initially only thought to be an art performance quickly turned into a fully developed competitive sport. Chessboxing is particularly popular in Germany, Russia, Great Britain and India. == History == Rubingh’s idea to create a new sport fusing the two disciplines - chess and boxing - originates from the 1992 comic “Froid Équate...