Chessboxing Videos

NBC's 'Last Call with Carson Daly'

Andrew McGregor, the founder of the LA Chessboxing club, explains the sport and talks about the first sanctioned bout in North American history, which he won by checkmate in the 5th round.

About Chessboxing

Chessboxing is a new sport in which one round of chess is followed by one round of boxing in alternating rounds for 6 rounds of chess, 5 rounds of boxing. A round of chess takes 4 minutes and boxing rounds are 3 minutes. Each competitor has 12 minutes on the chess timer. A checkmate or knockout wins.

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Chessboxing is a new sport

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News and Upcoming Events

July 27 - 2010

Chessboxing4charity event September 23rd at Les Deux Night Club in Hollywood with proceeds benefitting The Tiziano Project.

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April 06 - 2010

LA Chessboxing Club Founder featured as the cover story on the LA Times Brand X magazine.

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April 01 - 2010

We gave a live demonstration on KTLA's morning news broadcast.

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April 01 - 2010

We are having a Chessboxing 4 Charity event in Hollywood this June.

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March 17 - 2010

The first sanctioned bout in the history of North America was featured in the LA Times' Brand X. Thanks to everyone for coming out and your support.

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Oct 01 - 2009

We're building up our amateur boxing records in America while working on Chessboxing bouts in Europe.

Details on upcoming bouts in Los Angeles coming soon... Read More [+]

Oct 01 - 2009

Legendary boxing trainer Jesse Reid has started training our fighters

at the Wild Card Boxing gym... Watch Video / Read More [+]