Tihomir Dovramadjiev

Before taking up chess boxing,[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] He participated in the youth team of the Bulgarian National Chess Team, together with the world chess champions GM Veselin Topalov[16][17][18] and GM Antoaneta Stefanova.[19][20] He also participated 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;[21] 1993 - European Chess (Rapid) Championship in Paris (France) - 2-3 place.[22] In the years 2001 and 2008, he won the Varna Sport Universiade in the chess section.[23][24] In 1997, he won 1st place with the team of "Kaissa" (Varna) at the youth team championship in Plovdiv. He then competed for teams from Varna, as well as for "Lokomotiv" (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). He then he played in German team league, where he competed for SV Nashuatec (Berlin, Germany), where they won the German Landesliga for the 2003/2004 season, defeating the team of "Gillette" in the decisive match.[25] For the team of "Nashuatec", he 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 three of tournaments held by ChessBase[26] / Playchess Germany.[27][28][29][30][31] His FIDE Elo rating is 2356 (November 2011).

In the period 2003/4 he was invited by the World Chess Boxing Organisation (WCBO),[32][33] as result of this he became the champion of the first European Chess Boxing Championship in October 2005.[34] Titschko defeated Andreas Schneider (Germany) in the event.[14][35] The event was covered by a number of world media as Eurosport,[36] CNN,[37][38][39] Los Angeles Times,[40] Die WELT,[41] ChessBase[42] and other.[43][44] A detailed video report is presented by German television RBB.[45][46] The sport of chess boxing, which combines chess and boxing, was created by the Dutchman Iepe Rubingh.[47][48][49] According to the rules, rounds of chess must be turned with rounds of boxing[50] (11 rounds in total / 6 chess and 5 boxing).[51][52][53][54] The first World Chess Boxing Championship was held in 2003 in Amsterdam,[55][56] and the first European Championship was held in Berlin (Germany) on 1 October 2005.[57][58] Chess boxing is based on a concept,[59] 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.[60] 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 chess boxing by definition "Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board".[61][62] Detailed data,[63] historical facts [64] and an up-to-date sports calendar (Ministry Compliance) [65] with local and international tournaments are available on the official website of WCBO / Chess Boxing Organization of India - CBOI, represented by the current leading organization from India CBOI, taking the lead in 2020 from Germany after the elections.[66]

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

In parallel with his sports activities in the first decade of the 21st century, Titschko continues his career and professional path in academia. [67][68]

In the officially published biographical data it is presented that he successively over the years completed his higher education (in Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria) with the following specialties: Master's Degree - Engineer Designer, Field: Industrial Design, “Ergonomics and industrial design” (graduation 2002 – 2006); Master's Degree in Social Activities, Field: Social and Legal Sciences, Criminology and social prevention (graduation 2007 – 2009). In the period 2009 - 2012 he studied as a full-time doctoral student.[69] He successfully defended his doctoral thesis "Creating a design of osseointegrated dental implants" and received a PhD title in 2012 year. [70] The official state data are available on the website of Bulgarian National Centre for Information and Documentation (NACID). [71] During his studies as a doctoral student at the Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria (TU-Varna), he also teaches as a lecturer. In 2012 he become an assistant professor at TU-Varna in the Department of Industrial Design. [72] In 2018, after winning a state competition (Republic of Bulgaria. Issued by the National Assembly. State document: issue 94, p. 49. /11/24/2017 [73]), he held the academic position of associate professor at Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. Professional field: General engineering. [74]

In the current years, he carries out active activities, which include teaching within the university, preparation of students and doctoral students, as well as participation in research projects. According to the ResearchGate by 2021, he has over 200K readings of scientific publications and research. [75] As a coordinator [76] for the Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria, [77] in 2020 with his international colleagues from 9 transnational partner countries (HU (GC), AT, BG, HR, PL, RO, RS, SI, SK), in collaboration he participated in the creation of CIII-HU-1506-01-2021 Ergonomics and Human Factors Regional Educational CEEPUS (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies [78]) Network. [79][80][81][82]

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