Los Angeles Chessboxing Club

05/17/2024

Chessboxing classes are now being offered at Dynamix MMA on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-10AM and Sundays from 10-11AM! Come strengthen your mind and muscles and learn from incredible coaches and hone resilience skills and experience a fantastically interesting community and all that jazz!

1) Contact Dynamix to sign up for a free class.

2) If you enjoy it, membership options include a monthly option which allows you to take up to 2 classes in any class including: kickboxing, wrestling, and jiu jitsu, that are all all taught by dedicated, caring, champion coaches.

https://dynamixmartialarts.com/

04/16/2024

I'm EXCITED to announce that chessboxing classes are now being offered at Dynamix MMA in Santa Monica on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-10AM and on Sundays from 10-11AM (come learn from me and compete for a cause of your choice in an upcoming "chessboxing for charity" event. Or just learn the chess and boxing things!)!

Contact Dynamix and register through the ‘Contact Us’ link on their website that you may find below and the gym will follow-up. OR just text (310) 584-1700 with “Chessboxing” + first name, last name & email.

Additionally, the gym has classes in kickboxing, wrestling, and jiu jitsu that are all taught by dedicated, caring, elite coaches and is a reknowned international institution of excellence (I've met Alistair Overeem and Rico Verhoeven there)!

https://dynamixmartialarts.com/

03/06/2024

Hello LA Chessboxing Community!

We are migrating this group page into a business page to accommodate our new classes and upcoming 'chessboxing for charity events'!

Please 👍 Like our New Page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556598448560 to connect and stay informed on the latest and greatest (and checkmate-est)!

We have also started page in Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/lachess.boxing

Thank you again for all the years and moments!

EXCITED for future things!

LA Chessboxing

02/01/2024

Some photos from last weekend's chessboxing competition I officiated including the exciting creation of the new sport of chesswresting put on by the Los Angeles Chessboxing Club at Two Bit Circus!

Group chessboxing classes are scheduled to start next week from 7-8AM Tuesdays and Thursdays in Santa Monica if you are interested in learning the sport and/or strengthening your brain and brawn kind of thing please contact: [email protected]

More information is available at the club's website below:

https://lachessboxing.com/

01/27/2024

Looking forward to officiating bouts for the Los Angeles Chessboxing Club tomorrow at Two Bit Circus in Downtown Los Angeles starting at 2PM! Do come!

The sport of chesswrestling will also be making its world debut! Rules are below:

There are 7 alternating rounds of chess and wrestling starting and ending with chess.

In the wrestling rounds the two competitors are given a chance for a takedown from a standing position. This happens twice so there is a maximum possibility of two points per wrestling round and then the next chess round commences.

If an athlete earns 5 points in wrestling that athlete wins.

A checkmate instantly wins.

01/25/2024

Flier for the Los Angeles Chessboxing Club event at Two Bit Circus in Downtown Los Angeles this Sunday, January 28th starting at 2PM!

If you are curious about the sport more information may be found at the links below (in addition to further event details)!

https://lachessboxing.com/

https://lachessboxing.com/events-at-two-bit-circus/

01/22/2024

The Los Angeles Chessboxing Club is BACK by POPULAR DEMAND! Are you a boxer, grappler, or sumotori who enjoys or plays chess? Please send an email to: [email protected].

Also, there is chessboxing afoot January 28th at Two Bit Circus starting at 1PM as part of the 'Blowtorches, Brats, Boxing, & Beer showcase'!

More information may be found at the links below!

https://twobitcircus.com/

https://lachessboxing.com/

12/07/2023

Los Angeles Chessboxing Club friends and fans! Two Bit Circus is hosting a Super Smash Brothers tournament on Sunday, December 10th starting at 1:30PM and is including a main event of SmashBoxing where our founder is serving as an official Special Guest Referee (it's just like chessboxing but with Smash Brothers instead of chess because kids these days)!

More information on the event may be found at the link below!

https://bit.ly/smashboxtbc?r=qr

02/16/2023

A FANTASTIC video recap of the recent chessboxing event in Paris put on by the IFC-Intellectual Fight Club (our founder served as a judge and gave a bagpipe performance during the opening ceremony)!

You may see the entire event and learn more and connect to their social media to be informed about details of the next event at the link belo!

https://www.twitch.tv/ifc_chessboxing/about

02/04/2023

Sergio Leveque claimed his world champion chessboxing crown at last night's IFC-Intellectual Fight Club chessboxing event in Paris (our founder served as a judge)!!!!

You may see his bout and the others at the link below of the Twitch stream and also learn more at the article below:

https://www.twitch.tv/ifc_chessboxing

https://www.scacchipugilato.it/sergio-leveque-campione.../

Your window to the chessboxing world. Latest news, interviews, and expert analysis all in one place.

12/13/2022

This weekend's Mogul Chessboxing Championship where our founder served as a boxing referee and cornerman is available to watch online and was just written up by 'Rolling Stone' (3 MILLION people have viewed the event so far! Links below)!

https://youtu.be/tg9CH4KlKMc

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/chessboxing-youtube-ludwig-1234646050/

12/09/2022

There are still some tickets available for the Mogul Chessboxing Championships slated for this Sunday afternoon at the Galen Center next to USC! Our founder is one of the boxing officials so please come if you can and say 'hello'!

The event is also being live-streamed on Chess.com (link below) and YouTube!

https://www.chess.com/.../2022-mogul-chessboxing.../games