Tihomir Dovramadjiev

Before taking up Chessboxing,[12][13] Dovramadjiev won the Bulgarian national chess championship in his age group multiple times and he has played in international chess tournaments.[14] He is the national youth chess champion of Bulgaria for: 1991 (classic), 1993 (classic), 1997 (blitz) and 1998 (classic).[15] Participates in a number of European and World youth championships, achieving success at: 1991 - European Championship in Mamaia (Romania) - 5 place; 1991 - World Championship in Warsaw (Poland) - 3-4 place;[16] 1993 - European Chess (Rapid) Championship in Paris (France) - 2-3 place.[17] In the years 2001 and 2008 he won the Varna Sport Universiade in the chess section.[18][19] In 1997 he won 1 place with the team of "Kaissa" (Varna) at the youth team championship in Plovdiv. He competes for different teams from Varna, as well as for "Lokomotiv" (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). In the next he played in German team league, where he competed for SV Nashuatec (Berlin, Germany), with which won the German Landesliga for the 2003/2004 season, defeating the team of "Gillette" in the decisive match.[20] For the team of "Nashuatec" recorded a result of 22 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats.

He has successfully participated in a number of online championships, repeatedly ranking in the top 3 of tournaments held by ChessBase[21] / Playchess Germany.[22][23][24][25][26][27] His FIDE Elo rating is 2356 (November 2011).

In the period 2003/4 he was invited by the World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO),[28][29] as result of this he became the champion of the first European Chess Boxing Championship in October 2005.[30] Titschko defeated Andreas Schneider (Germany) in the event.[14][31] The event was covered by a number of world media as Eurosport,[32] CNN,[33][34][35] Los Angeles TImes,[36] Die WELT,[37] ChessBase[38] and other.[39][40] A detailed video report is presented by German television RBB.[41][42] The sport of chess boxing, which combines chess and boxing, was created by the Dutchman Iepe Rubingh.[43][44][45] According to the rules, rounds of chess must be turned with rounds of boxing[46] (11 rounds in total / 6 chess and 5 boxing).[47][48][49][50] The first World ChessBoxing Championship was held in 2003 in Amsterdam,[51][52] and the first European Championship was held in Berlin (Germany) on 1 October 2005.[53][54] Chessboxing is based on a concept,[55] officially defined by WCBO, as a combination of classic intellectual chess sport with classic fighting boxing sport in combination, which requires good intellectual and physical training. WCBO activity is under the motto of the ancient vision of a healthy mind in a healthy body (the Latin sentence Mens sana in corpore sano). WCBO characterizes Chessboxing by definition "Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board".[56][57]

• 2005 WCBO European Chessboxing Championship
• 2003/4 German Landesliga with the team SV Nashuatec (Berlin)

• Tihomir Dovramadjiev rating card at FIDE
• Tihomir Dovramadjiev - YouTube Channel