Training

About Chessboxing

Chess boxing works like this: You start with a round of boxing or chess. You can win by checkmating, knocking out your opponent, making your opponent go TKO three times in one round, or if your opponent's chess time runs out. You can also lose if you deliberately take too long to make a move in chess. Then you will also get a countdown like in boxing. If you don't make a move during the countdown, you also lose. If there is a draw in chess, the result will be decided by points in boxing.

Each round alternates between chess and boxing.

Of course we train a lot of boxing in the club, and of course our members play a lot of chess at home or on the road. But that alone does not make a chess boxer.

It's the combination of the two sports in training and in combat that creates the Chessboxing magic. Beads of sweat on the chessboard, sandbag exercises next to white and black queens, medicine ball shocks over towers, chess watches in the boxing ring - all this is part of our standards.

So we work with boxing coaches (who of course play chess), and we get analysis from chess coaches (who, sure enough, box)... but we also have the first chess boxer who ever taught both disciplines in combination - and continues to do so.

So it happens that on some days of the week we do only boxing training, and on other days chess boxing. We do not train pure chess together - the athletes do this on their own, with each other or alone on the computer.

It's Not About Winning At Any Price

Rather, it's about thinking and acting playfully, supporting each other, and being spurred on.

It's about physical and mental fitness, about controlling adrenaline in pressure situations, about hitting as fast as an arrow and pulling quickly.

For some athletes, it's also about preparing for a chess boxing match in training. Others, simply want to stay fit and use their brains in the process. No one is forced to spar, we have enough sandbags hanging in the hall, for those who do not want to "fight".

If you are interested in having a fight, let one of our trainers know, and they can decide with you what the best next steps are.

We Chessboxers do not look back on decades of tradition: we develop it.

So if we think it appropriate we improve the fighting rules without further ado. And rebuild the training if we expect something from it. So that in the future the Chessboxing experience will be even deeper, even more exciting and even more comprehensive.

Because we all want to keep training. Every week.

Did you think otherwise?

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During the Berlin school vacations and on public vacations the Franz-Mett-Sporthalle is closed and there will be no training there.

Usually we move to an alternative location in the summer, which we will gladly inform you about by our Whatsapp group and email.

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