Thanks, Tushar for sharing this. One of my friends at Cornell goes to Zumba every day before CHI deadline so that she can sleep in the night regardless of how much stressed she is!
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 11:25 PM tushar21 tushar21@dgp.toronto.edu wrote:
I just read a pretty interesting article reminding us of the deep connection between body and mind in terms of fitness. I don't know about you, but the article encourages at least me to take a better care of my body.
Here's an interesting portion:
"The 1984 World Chess Championship was called off after five months and 48 games because defending champion Anatoly Karpov had lost 22 pounds. "He looked like death," grandmaster and commentator Maurice Ashley recalls. In 2004, winner Rustam Kasimdzhanov walked away from the six-game world championship having lost 17 pounds. In October 2018, Polar, a U.S.-based company that tracks heart rates, monitored chess players during a tournament and found that 21-year-old Russian grandmaster Mikhail Antipov had burned 560 calories in two hours of sitting and playing chess -- or roughly what Roger Federer would burn in an hour of singles tennis."
The article also talks about the rigorous physical preparation the chess grandmasters go through to prepare for the big tournaments:
"According to Ashley, India's first grandmaster, Viswanathan Anand, does two hours of cardio each night to tire himself out so he doesn't dream about chess; Kasimdzhanov drinks tea only during tournaments and plays tennis and basketball every day. Chirila does at least an hour of cardio and an hour of weights to build muscle mass before tournaments."
That makes me wonder: what activities do we do before the CHI deadline?
Link:
https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlse... _______________________________________________ Thirdspace mailing list Thirdspace@dgp.toronto.edu https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thirdspace