Chess Boxing: You Throw A Punch, ... Lepe says he got the idea for chess boxing from a 1992 comic book called Froid Equateur, drawn by French-Yugoslavian artist and film maker Enki Bilal.

Chess boxing was a plot device in the graphic novel, Froid Équateur (Equator Cold) by Serbian creator Enki Bilal. Unitil Iepe Rubingh, a comics artist from Holland, started organising real matches.

The same chess game is played throughout. There are rules to govern all variations of oddball finishes that might occur, such as stalemate, time violation, and boxing draw, among others, but those ...

But combining chess and boxing didn’t occur until 1992, and even then, it was only in the art of a Bosnian-born French filmmaker and comic book artist named Enki Bilal, whose science fiction ...

Rubingh, a chess-playing artist, took up boxing in his 20s. It was around that time that he stumbled across the work of graphic artist Enki Bilal, whose novel Froid Equateur first featured the sport. ...

BPP producer Dan Pashman tries to sell the rest of the show on doing a segment about a hybrid sport that combines chess and boxing. Tomorrow, checker wrestling, perhaps? Diversions.

French comic book writer Enki Bilal laps it up as he watches two proponents of his creation combine the cerebral nature of chess with the physicality of boxing in a "sporting" first. Bilal watched ...