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-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess
_______________________________________________
Thirdspace mailing list
Thirdspace@dgp.toronto.edu
https://www.dgp.toronto.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thirdspace