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| Jan 30, 2021 at 20:43 | history | edited | Tim Campion | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2021 at 20:36 | comment | added | Tim Campion | I just actually, y'know, like, read a bit more of the article I linked to and was basing my argument around :) and they actually get into this. They seem to say exactly what you're suggesting -- it all has more to do with elevated stress than overclocked brains. They also say that chess players actually have responded in recent decades by paying more attention to diet and exercise. | |
| Jan 30, 2021 at 20:36 | comment | added | Gabe K | Yeah I suspect that's right and that it's more so that they aren't drinking enough, which affects weight much more in something short like a 10 day event. The other thing is that burning calories quickly creates a lot of heat, and chess players aren't generating a huge amount of sweat. | |
| Jan 30, 2021 at 20:26 | comment | added | Gabe K | I believe that they lose a lot if weight and have elevated heartrates. However, the fact that chess players aren't extremely focused on their nutrition during games suggests to me that the weight being lost is caused by not drinking and eating enough rather than burning calories at an extreme rate. | |
| Jan 30, 2021 at 20:25 | comment | added | Tim Campion | You might be right that they're not actually burning more calories, but just forgetting to eat. Even if they really are burning more calories, perhaps it's not the mental effort per se leading to weight loss, but just the elevated stress associated with intense competition. In which case (I hope) the situation has even less to do with mathematics. | |
| Jan 30, 2021 at 20:19 | comment | added | Tim Campion | @GabeK Yeah, it does seem a bit out there. In my 10 seconds of googling I was more expecting the top hits would be debunking it as an urban legend. | |
| Jan 30, 2021 at 20:15 | comment | added | Gabe K | To be honest, I'm very skeptical of that figure. It would imply that playing a high level chess tournament is roughly as intense from a metabolic perspective as riding in the Tour de France. In any contest where calories are being burned at that rate, nutrition becomes a major strategic factor because your body will deplete its glycogen reserves within about 2 hours. I suspect that chess raises the heart rate and blood pressure and the players lose a lot of weight because they aren't eating enough to compensate, | |
| Jan 30, 2021 at 19:58 | comment | added | Tim Campion | For now, I'd reiterate Hailong's conclusions: It's widely believed that exercise and diet are important not just for health in general, but for mental well-being in particular, and I can only assume there's a large body of evidence for this thesis. Particularly as a mathematician, I prize my mental well-being dearly, and so I do subscribe to the thesis that good diet and exercise are important to my mathematical pursuits (though following through on the obvious conclusions that I should eat well and exercise may be another matter:) | |
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| Jan 30, 2021 at 19:22 | history | edited | LSpice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 30, 2021 at 19:21 | history | answered | Tim Campion | CC BY-SA 4.0 |