You don’t really know what to expect when entering a chessboxing arena. Sweat rubs shoulders with silence, gloves brush against chess clocks, and we still hesitate between smiling or bowing before this strange discipline that is half noble art, half noble game. In any case, it earned France to distinguish itself last September: Jean-Yves Marty, 28 years old, became world champion in the discipline, in less than 65 kg, thus crowning a young career made of sacrifices and intense efforts.
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