Only the Germans could come up with a game like chess boxing...

I would have to admit to being the world's most biggest sports anti-enthusiast.
What could be more boring than watching grown men and women running, kicking, jumping or throwing stuff around - especially when they do it to the same rules, dressed up in ridiculous clothes, week after week, year in year out? (Listening to them talking about it, that's what: the other day I read someone saying how they loved to watch interviews with champions - it was T. Harv Eker in his excellent book 'Secrets of the Millionaire Mind' (and boy! do I need that book!) - but personally, I can think of nothing more inane than listening to footballers commenting on their game. How many ways can you say, 'We lost. We did our best, but they beat us'? Or, as the cycling champion from Bergamo is reputed to have said: 'I won, I came in first - and I hope to do better next time!'
So don't expect me to be writing much about sport.
However, what did grab my attention was to catch an item on BBC World (yeah, I know, I watch too much TV. What was it Groucho Marx said about TV being educational? 'Sure it's educational. Every time someone switches on the TV I go into the other room and pick up a book'), which was about the chess boxing championships currently taking place in Berlin.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/europe/7084494.stm
Chess boxing? Alternate rounds of - that's right! - chess and boxing. The chess actaully takes place in the ring, with the pugillists dripping blood and sweat onto the board. Though how they can move those pieces around when they are wearing boxing gloves beats me.And trust our friends the Germans to come up with an idea like that!