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Posted by enda mailcafe.net 11/09/2005 03:06:10 Play online chess	Subject: Chess boxing Message: Any plans for gameknot to provide an option for this fine sport?? For info -> sport.guardian.co.uk Bags first fight Enda
Posted by se_santi mailcafe.net 11/09/2005 04:03:45 Play online chess	LOL Message: That's the most stupid thing i have ever read about in my life (if not, it's VERY close to that)... no wonder they are the only 2 people in the world who do it...
Posted by futile mailcafe.net 11/09/2005 13:11:39 Play online chess	Well why not? Message: Really, to be able to pound the snot out of someone in the ring as they're beating the snot out of you on the board is kind of poetic. I just hope they don't go too far with this theme...I mean I don't want to have to go a couple of rounds in the "pit" whilst defending my thesis...
Posted by chessnovice mailcafe.net 11/09/2005 13:50:20 Play online chess	... Message: I do boxing as a hobby (as well as chess, of course), and I like this idea. Imagine that most kids who defeat opponents over the board often get the humbling response, "Yeah, but I could still beat you up and take your lunch money." This would be the ultimate way to refute that. :)
Posted by mightytiny mailcafe.net 11/09/2005 13:54:35 Play online chess	So... Message: ...which of the world's top chess players do you think would win a chess boxing tournament? :D A resurrected Blackburne perhaps? (Didn't he literally knock out Steiniz in some tournament? :O )
Posted by nottop mailcafe.net 11/09/2005 15:27:05 Play online chess	boxing and chess Message: There does seem to be a relationship, doesn't there? (more for otb chess than correspondence). There is a long time to train, study, prepare - and you can have seconds or assitants. But in the end, you have to get in the ring and fight it out. No help, no aids, just you and the opponent. And like in chess, when the punches start flying, the theory goes by the boards. I think the boxing trainers are a little more sophisticated than chess trainers. If you are going to box a small fast fighter, they will spar you against small fast fighters. Spassky, in preparing for his match against Fisher, took a training match against Karpov. I thought - "what could be more different in style than Fisher and Karpov?" I think Spassky should have talked to a russian boxing coach rather than a russian chess coach. It takes a little sophisticiation on the part of the observer to appreciate boxing (that and turning off the sound). There's so much more to it than people know. I just wish that the chiefs were more protective of the fighters (like wearing headgear like the amateurs do). I hate to see people hurt.
Posted by honololou mailcafe.net 11/09/2005 19:38:55 Play online chess	and I thought… Message: speed golf was stupid.
Posted by ccmcacollister mailcafe.net 11/09/2005 19:54:12 Play online chess	Well maybe ... Message: If PKA or at least Kick Boxing gets ahold of it . . . my boxing is terrible since giving up club play }8-) But doesnt the board get knocked over a lot ??!
Posted by se_santi mailcafe.net 11/10/2005 04:52:37 Play online chess	I compare Message: chess to tennis, by the use of initiative... Though tennis is more changing than chess in terms of initiative (comparing high level of tennis vs high level of chess, of course... i know at my rating initiative comes and goes easily)
Posted by futile mailcafe.net 11/10/2005 21:00:31 Play online chess	I Recall... Message: ...a MAD magazine bit about extreme sports such as Phonebooth Croquet and Underwater Bowling. The extreme chess was played with lit sticks of dynamite! I think that would be more entertaining. Talk about timing out! (Commentator: "and here we are at move 27, it looks like Black is in a bit of time trouble...he makes a move....BUT TOO LATE! The board has been completely blown apart! Now White emerges from behind his berm to take the prize!)
Posted by tyekanyk mailcafe.net 11/13/2005 12:31:40 Play online chess	Let me just say... Message: What Andy Kaufman said: I can beat any girl at this sport. Anyone who thinks different should prove it to me.
Posted by pawntificator mailcafe.net 11/14/2005 23:57:47 Play online chess	It doesnt' seem very fair Message: There are some young kids these days who could whip my butt at chess, but I would knock them out. In general, I think I would do good at this sport. I'm not a very bad chess player and I'm a pretty big guy. I would actually be willing to give this a try. Sounds like fun.
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