A new sport is slowly becoming a sensation, and it combines two pastimes that seem to be polar opposites: chessboxing. The game is exactly what it sounds like, as it combines chess and boxing to ...

“Three minutes Chess, three minutes boxing,” said Samy Shoker, “you start with chess, and after three minutes you stop the game and put your hands up.” Samy Shoker isn’t just an International Grand ...

When Matt Thomas dropped out of law school, he devoted himself to a sport he initially thought was a joke: chess boxing. In 2018, he became the first American to compete for a world chess boxing title ...

Will MacLeod, second from left, at the podium after winning a silver medal at the recently completed World Chessboxing Championship, held in Loznica, Serbia, in late September. MacLeod is a 2022 ...

When we first heard about chess boxing, we thought it was a joke. Chess boxing? Could it really be a thing? Turns out, it is, and it's just what it sounds like: alternate rounds of chess and boxing.

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. When Matt ...