Chess grandmasters use between 6,000 and 7,000 calories a day when competing, Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford University, has said. They are “turning on a massive physiological stress response simply with thought and doing the same thing with their bodies as if they were some baboon who has just ripped open the stomach […]
Final Results of 1st CrossFit Chess / Fitness Challenge
All members of the #1 Ranked Webster University National Championship Team are CrossFitters. They train at CrossFit26. Being fit helped them with grueling competitions such as PanAm InterCollegiate Championship & Final Four, etc. Earlier today, they put their chess skills and fitness to test with 1st ever Chess/Fitness Challenge. It was held at CrossFit26 in […]
Polgar makes her players work out at the gym
The other Final Four — of chessBY MICHAEL S. ROSENWALDApril 4 at 10:19 am The tallest figure at this weekend’s Final Four in New York will stand about 4 inches. I speak, of course, of the King. And the Final Four of Chess, not basketball. The quiet, polite madness will take place at the New […]