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Photo credit: James Bartosik |
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| The headline bout for the International Chessboxing European Heavyweight Championship between Italy’s Gianluca Sirci and Andy Costello from England provided fitting climax to an action-packed evening. Costello, playing white, prevailed by checkmate in the fifth round of a bruising see-saw encounter in which he was nearly floored by the first punch of the fight, a crashing straight right from Sirci. But the former policeman from Devon proved to have granite chin. He recovered well and by the end of the round was giving his opponent payback by way of a thumping left-hook which found its mark time and again. The match continued along these lines with highly entertaining exchanges of punches and chess material, the Englishman coming out better on both counts. Sirci finally surrendered his Queen and Costello took full advantage to end the contest in convincing style. |
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W | L |
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Costello wins via chess - submission (Round 5) |
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[Event "LCB - Heavyweight Tournament 2012: Prizefight Knight"]
[Site "Scala, London, England"]
[Date "2012.09.29"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Andy 'The Rock' Costello"]
[Black "Gianluca 'Il Dottore' Sirci"]
[Result "*"] 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.e3 Bf5 4.Bd3 Nh6 5.O-O e6 6.c3 Bd6 7.Qc2 O-O 8.Nbd2
Ng4 9.h3 Nh6 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Qd7 12.Bxh6 gxh6 13.Nf6+ Kg7 14.Nxd7 Rfd8
15.Nde5 Nxe5 16.Nxe5 Bxe5 17.dxe5 Bxd3 18.Qc1 Bxf1 19.Qxf1 Rd2 20.b3 Rad8
21.c4 Rb2 22.Qc1 Rdd2 23.Rb1 Rbc2 24.Qe1 Re2 25.Qd1 Rcd2 26.Qf1 Rxe5 27.
Re1 Rxf2 28.Qxf2 Rxe1+ 29.Qxe1 |
