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Chessboxing World Championship 2008 in Berlin
03.07.2008 – In October there is one between Anand and Kramnik in Bonn. But that will be peaceful compared to the World Championship that is scheduled in Berlin this weekend. There four minutes of chess are interspersed with three minutes of violent pugilistic activities. We bring you photos and videos – and we also found out what FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov thinks about this sport.
Chessboxing World Champion Frank Stoldt defends his title as slumbering Russia awakes!
Press release
David “Double D” Depto and “Anti Terror” Frank Stoldt will meet for the World Championship in Chessboxing. Six rounds of speed chess and five rounds of boxing will take place alternatingly. In a maximum of eleven rounds, the decision will come either through K.O. or check mate. The match takes place on November 3rd 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Press release.
On Saturday, July 5th, 2008, a nationwide chessboxing tournament 2008/2009 throughout Germany (Hamburg, Cologne, Munich) will be inaugurated in Berlin. The tournament features an Open German Championship in the middleweight division and a World Championship tournament in the light heavyweight division. Totally unrivalled in its division is the top-class entertainment program with surprising musical guests.
The evening will climax with the fight Frank Stoldt vs. Nikolay Sazhin. Frank Stoldt won the first light heavyweight world championship title in chess boxing after defeating American David Depto (San Francisco) on 9 November 2007 in a dramatic fight. This time he defends his title against 19 year-old Russian Nikolay Sazhin.
From Krasnojarsk in Siberia, Nikolay Sazhin is 1.83 tall, weighs 85 kg and has shown his talent in more than 60 boxing matches (49/13/0). After seven years at his chess club “Ladia”, Nikolay has reached an Elo-rating of 1911 and is considered to be Russia’s most promising chessboxing talent.
The coming chessboxing superpower Russia has woken up with a roar! Being a traditional chess nation and having conquered the world of boxing during the last 20 years, Russia now seeks to prove that the world’s strongest chessboxers come from Russia, too.
“Anti Terror“ Frank Stoldt is a 37-year old riot policeman from Berlin, he weighs 84.5 kg (13,3 st.) and is 1.87 tall. He is a former Berlin Kickboxing Champion and furthermore has 25 boxing bouts behind him. In 2005 he began chessboxing and has since then won every fight. His ELO-rating is 1960. In his capacity as a policeman he went to Kosovo on behalf of the United Nations to train policemen there.
Will experienced Frank Stoldt be able to keep the title in Berlin or will he loose it to the upcoming chessboxing star Nikolay Sazhin?
Match data
Date: 5 July 2008
Address: Luckenwalderstrasse 6, 10963 Berlin, Germany
Public transport: U1, U2, Station Gleisdreieck
Ticket are available here or call +49 30 44 326 326
Impressions from the Chessboxing match last year
By Frederic Friedel
On November 3rd 2007 your intrepid ChessBase news team (specifically: Fred 'n Pascal) took the plunge and attended a full chessboxing night in Berlin. In it the German Champion "Anti Terror" Frank Stoldt faced a challenge by America's David “Double D” Depto in a fight for the world light heavyweight title. The event took place Tape, one of the most popular clubs in the city.
The start of an undercard fight in the light heavyweight division
The boxing part – four minutes of chess are interspersed with three minutes of boxing
If you think this is all a show take a look at Marc Breuer's left eye...
... and his position in the game
The main event, the world light heavyweight fight between David Depto and Frank Stoldt
Again, this is the real thing, not some kind of show for a naive audience
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Damn, I thought it would be like a group of boxers are the life size chess pieces. Two grandmaster chess players tell them where to go. The boxers then go to take out another piece, but the other piece (another boxer) has a chance to defend by boxing the opponent for one round to a judges decision.
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