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How to Burn 6,000 Calories Playing Chess

The stresses on your body when you're doing some really, really hard thought and particularly stressful thought can be akin to running a marathon. A chess player named Mikhail Antipov measured in one tournament, he lost 560 calories in two hours of hard thinking. It's not an accident that NASA has begun to train astronauts very much like athletes.

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