Fencing has been described as a combination of chess and boxing. Well, someone had the bright idea of forgetting about the fencing and letting chess players duke it out between moves, according to a German chess group.
It’s called chess boxing, and the Guy Page sees it as a great way to sell beer in some Chicago bar. Check out the Chess Boxing World Championship at ChessBase.com and search for “chess boxing.”
Those who lose the boxing portion of the match might want to consider that despite a generally warmer attitude toward cosmetic plastic surgery, men may be growing less likely to go under that particular knife.
– The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reports in its latest survey that as women have grown more likely consider plastic surgery, men are moving in the other direction: This February, 14 percent of guys said they’d consider it, a decrease of 4 percentage points from last year.