A strange little side quest
Before the next round of Fist Bump Html5, here is a piece of the bigger picture. Boxing entered the modern Olympic Games in 1904 at St. Louis. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. That history is one reason familiar mechanics can still feel new when they are recombined well.