Samy Shoker isn’t just an International Grand Chess Master; he’s also the European Middleweight Chess Boxing Champion.

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — James Canty III is the new world champion of chessboxing. Chessboxing is a hybrid sport combining alternating rounds of speed chess and boxing. Someone wins by checkmate, ...

A chessboard awaits the next round just outside the ring during a chessboxing match in Berlin in 2012 AP Images There’s a boxing ring planted in the middle of a London nightclub. So far, nothing too ...

Detroiter James Canty III won the World Chess Boxing Championship in Serbia. Jamie Sherrod speaks with him about how he got ...

Chess is a game with a long and hallowed history, and in the roughly 1,500 years since it first popped up in northwest India and Central Asia, it has earned a reputation as the most intellectual of ...