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Check It Out: Chess-Boxing!
Imagine this: You're playing chess. In the middle of the game, you stop, put on boxing gloves, and you and your opponent start throwing punches. After three minutes, you go back to the chessboard and play some more. If that sounds like fun to you, then you might like the strange new sport of chess-boxing.
Nikolay Sazhin, a 19-year-old Russian math student, likes it. Earlier this month, Nikolay won the world chess-boxing championship in Berlin. He nearly knocked out his opponent in the second round. Then he finished him off by capturing his queen on the chessboard.
The sport of chess-boxing started about five years ago and is based on a story in a French comic book. The rules are simple. You play chess for four minutes. Then you box for three minutes, rest for a minute and go back to the chessboard. Players say it's hard because they have to calm down after fighting to focus on the chess. If a player knocks out his opponent or wins the chess game, then he wins the bout. If the chess is a tie, then whoever scored the most points boxing wins. The combinations of chess and boxing may sound a little crazy, but fans of the sport are taking it seriously. They hope to see it in the summer Olympics in 2016!
I'm Lucy and that's what happened in sports this week! Play Match It to test your chess-playing savvy.
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