Due to sustained high blood pressure levels, “a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day.”
I am shook.
The first time a chess grandmaster told me they lose around 10-20 pounds during the course of a single tournament, my jaw was on the floor. I spent a year embedded in the bizarre world of weight loss in chess. Here is what I found: #Chess #FIDEWorldCup
The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
You wouldn’t think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and extend their arms only from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic phenomenon gripping chess.
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