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The sport of chess boxing was invented in 1992 by the French artist Enki Bilal, who thought it up for his comic book, Froid Équateur.
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The first chessboxing competition took place in Berlin in 2003. That same year, the first world championship fight was held in Amsterdam in cooperation with the Dutch Boxing Association as well as the Dutch Chess Federation.
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In late 2003 after the success of the first public chess boing match and world championship, the sport decided that they needed a centralize covering body. this governing both would be the WCBO
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Iepe Rubinghi of Netherlands won the World Championship Class Middleweight, in Amsterdam against Jean Louis Veenstra of Netherlands.
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Two years after the first world championship, the first European Chess Boxing Championship took place in Berlin on October 1, 2005. in this fight Andreas Dilschneider was defeated by Tihomir Atanassov Dovramadjiev when he resigned in the 7th round (chess), crowning the latter by being the first European Chess Boxing Champion.
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In 2006, 36-year-old Frank Stoldt, who was a former UN-Peacekeeper in Kosovo and Afghanistan, qualified himself to fight for the title after a 7 round victory. Frank Stoldt went up against the American David Depto in November 2007 in Berlin to fight for the first world championship title in the light heavyweight division. Frank Stoldt defeated Depto in the 7th round and thereby cemented Berlin's status as the leading city in the chessboxing world becoming the first German world champion.
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In 2008, chessboxing clubs were founded in London and Krasnoyarsk.
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Nikolay Sazhin of Russia becomes a World Champion for the Light heavyweight class, in Berlin against Frank Stoldt of Germany.
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Chessboxing first received credit from the International Chess Federation FIDE, in April 2008; its president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, took part in a chessboxing demo fight in Elista.
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Created in 2009, the Los Angeles Chessboxing Club was the first of its kind in the United States and was directly followed by the New York Chessboxing Club in 2010.
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Leonid Chernobaev of Belarus becomes World Champion Class: Light heavyweight, in Krasnoyarsk against Nikolay Sazhin of Russia.
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The WCBO's Championship was initially held in Berlin and then later world championships taking place worldwide, the scene at the London Chessboxing Club grew where chessboxing events take place on a regular basis.
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In 2011, the first international club matchup took place with Berlin and London in the ring—London came out the winner with 2:1 won bouts
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In 2011, the WCBO and with it the global chessboxing community made the biggest leap forward in its development to date with the foundation of the Chessboxing Organisation of India and its expansion in Asia, including China and Iran.
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The Italian Chessboxing Federation was founded in 2012.
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As of May 2013, The WCBO is responsible for organizing all of the professional chessboxing fights worldwide and for the organization of the Chess Boxing World Championships.
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The 2013 World Championship in Moscow was the first chessboxing event organized and marketed by WCBO.
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Early 2014 saw more Chessboxing events than in any other year, with more than 245 fighters varying in both age and weight class, taking place
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Chessboxing events in 2015 were produced by London Chessboxing under the WCBA
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Chessboxing has also become more popular among young, poor women in India where the sport has been seen as an alternative to traditional roles
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Boxer and entrepreneur Matt Thomas of Atlanta, GA will be the first-ever American to represent Team USA at the Chess-boxing Amateur World Championship. The world’s best amateur chess-boxers will head to Kolkata, India. Twenty-eight-year-old Thomas, who will be accompanied by Kevin Vaughn-Carber of Iowa, will fight in the cruiser-weight division (85-90kg). The two will join over 120 competitors from thirteen different countries.