they sweat and their pulse rate is going up when they get excited. They lose one or two kilos during a game."

Rubingh now runs a chess-boxing club at a gym in a trendy part of the old east Berlin, and that's where I will face policeman Frank Stoldt tonight. What in boxing they call "the tale of the tape" is not heartening. Stoldt is 35, had 12 proper amateur fights in his 20s, winning 11, and has an Elo international chess rating of 1,700 - good club standard. I am quite a bit more than 35, have only once been in the ring (in 2000) with a heart-attack victim who boxed for exercise and had been told not to hit me, and might on a good day manageeven saves Earth
from biological attack by aliens. His main concern? That his dad does
not find out "the Wonder Boy" is none other than his own son. Luckily,
the odd press photographer is avoided but imagine TNT Tom based in 2013
with all the cameras, cell phones, dvrs and so on!

Characters
such as Moon Man or Marsman had one off appearances but over the years
they have been developed somewhat. In the Black Tower universe there is
life on Mars, albeit underground -even an explanation as to why the
various Martian races took that root. For the Moon Man, well, we have a
very rich literary history of Selenite civilisation from the pulps
onward. Both Mars and the Moon races feature in Green Skies (the
Martians referring to Earth people as "our biological cousins" which
ties in with the