Queen’s gambit, plus a punch: The improbable rise of chessboxing

economist.com/britain/2025/05/20/the-improbable-rise-of-chessboxing

It’s 9pm on a sweaty May evening at London’s Scala nightclub and Hamza Buhari must knock out his opponent in the next three minutes or lose his king. The 28-year-old pharmacist from London is taking on Lithuania’s Tadas Ceponis at chessboxing, a mash-up of two sports, in which…

This story appeared on economist.com, 2025-05-20 17:24:18.
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