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Knockout or nonsense? The Wharf reports from the UK's first ever showcase of Chessboxing

WE’VE all seen gruesome fights on family board game night – but this evening was more brutal than a Christmas Day without TV repeats.

Tonight’s victor is sitting in a chair on an upper floor of the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club just minutes after masterminding a win on the chessboard.

Only he’s stripped to the waist and drenched in sweat, clasping a damp object against a rapidly-swelling black eye.