The Chess Grandmaster’s Extreme Workout (Rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Chess grandmasters need incredible amounts of brain power, and also extreme physical endurance, to take on their rivals. Major tournaments can run six hours a day, ten to twelve days in a row. Players might burn up to 6,000 calories and lose two pounds a day during these grueling matches. Today’s chess world champions might train with two hours a day of running, swimming, or tennis, plus a strict diet. In a respin of one of our most popular episodes, ESPN’s Aishwarya Kumar joins Mina Kimes to break down how top chess players meld mind and body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So at 7.30 a.m., Fabiana Caruana heads out for a run.
0:08.3	He's about around five miles with his training partner, Christian Chirilla.
0:12.4	They jog up and down the hills.
0:14.4	His legs look so toned.
0:15.7	You might think that he's a soccer player.
0:18.1	And then he's going to have an hour of tennis later on and then basketball,
0:22.1	and then he's going to jump into the pool for an hour of swimming. He's getting in shape.
0:28.0	People would be surprised to hear this because Fabiano isn't a football player or a runner.
0:34.5	He's a chess grandmaster.
0:39.0	The game of chess is incredibly taxing on the brain, but it's harder on the body than you'd ever guess.
0:45.4	Today, an encore of one of our favorite stories, inside the physically grueling world of elite chess,
0:52.6	where becoming king is even harder than it looks.
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