Tim Woolgar is a British
chess boxer and event organiser who established
Great Britain Chess Boxing Organisation and the London Chessboxing Club, the first United Kingdom
chessboxing institution. He is the current president of the
World Chessboxing Association
The World Chessboxing Association (WCBA) is the governing body of chess boxing. The WCBA was founded in 2013 and has its headquarters in London, England. Its current president is Tim Woolgar who was the chess boxing UK champion at heavyweight ...
. He is a former holder of the title, British Heavyweight Chess Boxing Champion. He also promotes chess boxing events.
Woolgar plans to come out of retirement to fight in London in December 2022.
Woolgar, otherwise known as “the Hippo” because of his rotund midsection has fought 12 times in Chessboxing with a record of 4-7-1.
Biography
Woolgar formerly worked in the media as one of the UK's first video-journalists being one of the original recruits to Associated Media's TV news service Channel One London. Woolgar also worked as a video-journalist at the BBC's Science and Features department, an executive producer at ITV and as head of interactive programming at Endemol UK.
On 15 August 2008, Woolgar won 1st vacant title of British heavyweight championship by
checkmate
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with ) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game.
In chess, the king is ...
in 9th round against Exeter-based
Stewart Telford.
On 24 April 2009, Woolgar had the world's first chess boxing match under amateur rules against
Matthew Read, losing to a 7th round checkmate.
In October 2011, Woolgar was elected to the post of director of marketing of the
English Chess Federation with 95 votes cast in his favour, 89 votes cast in favour of 'none of the above' and six abstentions. He served his entire term, but did not stand for re-election in 2012.
Record
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Hubert "The Wardrobe" van Melick , , "Beyond The Super-Dome" , ,
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Nick Cornish
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* Nick (given name)
* A cricket term for a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat
* British slang for being arrested
* British slang for a police station
* British slang for stealing
* Short for nickname
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Boston Dome, London, England , , Check-mate , , 7 , ,
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Sergio Leveque , , "Super-Dome" , ,
Boston Dome, London, England , , Check-mate , , 5 , ,
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Matthew "Crazy Arms" Read , , "Game of Kings" , ,
Bethnal Green, London, England , , Time Penalty , , 7 , ,
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Stewart Telford , , "An Exhibition of CHESSBOXING" , ,
Bethnal Green, London, England , , Check-mate , , 9 , ,
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References
External links
London Chessboxing Club websiteECF Board Officials
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British chess players
Chess boxers
British male boxers
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