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Mike Richardson's documentary on a fascinating new sport plus an exclusive interview with the Director now airing on Cohesive.TV

Mike Richardson's documentary on that fascinating sport Chessboxing, a combination sport and one of the most exciting new sporting events in Europe, takes chess the ultimate thinking sport and boxing the ultimate physical sport, to something completely new.

A fusion that creates a different kind of energy in sport, something that has not been there before. Chessboxing started in Berlin when a Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh staged an exhibition Chessboxing match. The idea of Chessboxing is out of a comic from Enki Bilal. Iepe was fascinated by it and wanted to bring the idea to live. Iepe was fascinated by it and wanted to bring the idea to live. In the comic the match is portrait with 12 rounds of Heavyweight Boxing after which the players start a Grandmaster game of Chess that lasts 3 to 4 hours. This way the game would not attract the public, Iepe knew that. Therefore the game's rules were set to 4 minutes of Chess followed by 3 minutes of Boxing up to at total of 11 rounds. The player wins either through checkmate, a knockout or if the other player exceed the chess time limit and gets disqualified. In Chess the player battles against the enemy's King, in Boxing the opponent is the enemy in person. The constant challenge for the player is to calm down or switch his mind. The best Chessboxing players are currently the Germans. Germany is where it started but a new club in London Islington found by Tim Woolgar does already have great talent like Andy Costello to follow.

Frank Stolt "Antiterror" is the current champion and David Deptoe "David Double D Deptoe" is the first Amerian to represent the sport. Be sure to watch an exclusive interview with Director and Producer Mike Richardson on What's up Cohesive.TV now showing on http://www.Cohesive.tv