Saturday, April 22, 2006

Kasparov vs. Klitschko - chess but no boxing

Since it was mentioned recently on NPR, Chessboxing seems to keep several chess bloggers occupied, see for instance an older post at the Boylston Chess Club Blog, a recent post by myself, and another one on Chess for Blood (quite natural for a blog with that title). Now the Boylston Chess Club Blog cites The Sweet Science Blog that caught the boxer Dominick Guinn comparing the upcoming box fight Klitschko vs. Byrd with a chess match. Well, what if the box champion Vladimir Klitschko would play chess against the chess heavyweight Kasparov?

Turns out that both Klitschko brothers actually like to play chess! Even better, both of them played chess against Kasparov during a simul chess match in Leipzig/Germany where they became friends after "kidnapping" the chess champion to rescue him from his fans. The full story can be read on the official Klitschko Brothers Website (the story is actually quite fun to read, so take a look yourself!)

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