After I looked up her background, then I knew I am Artemis.” Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior.

Chess boxing was a plot device in the graphic novel, Froid Équateur (Equator Cold) by Serbian creator Enki Bilal. Unitil Iepe Rubingh, a comics artist from Holland, started organising real matches.