So you float like a butterfly, sting like a... well, like a butterfly. But with mad chess skillz, you can still put the hurt on that brawny dude in the opposite corner. The new sport of chess boxing alternates three-minute rounds of punching with four minutes of heart-stopping chess. (Matches end after 11 rounds or when someone gets knocked out—literally or by checkmate.) Inspired by Le Froid Equateur, a French comic book in which fighters duke it out on a giant chessboard, the first match was held in Amsterdam in 2003, and the unlikely hybrid caught on quickly in Europe. 1 Although the sport is relatively new to the US, Los Angeles
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