LEAGOLOGY

Chess Boxing.

Eleven rounds. Six chess, five boxing. Alternating. Win by checkmate or knockout — whichever comes first. Chess boxing is the sport that sounds like a joke until you watch someone get checkmated with a black eye. Brains and brawn. No either/or.

You can run it today.

The draw, the fixtures and the results all work for chess boxing, on the screen and on everyone's phone.

The rating comes next.

A rating needs somebody marking every match, and we build that marker one sport at a time. Until then a rating would be a guess, so we don't give one.

Want Chess Boxing to count?

Markers get built in the order people ask for them. Leave an email and we'll tell you the day it can carry a rating.

One email about that sport. Nothing else.

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