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The Chess Event.

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"Spokesman Andreas Dilschneider, who is also one of the chess trainers for Berlin's chess-boxing club, says the dual sport is primed to become 'the biathlon of the 21st century.'" En garde...I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style: Time peeks into the world of chess-boxing. "The matches work like this: competitors alternate between three-minute rounds of boxing and four-minute rounds of speed chess with one-minute breaks in between to get the gloves off and hunker down at the chess table. The winner is determined by knockout, checkmate, or referee decision."

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