TIL Chess players can burn up to 6000 calories per day during a tournament. The 1984 World Chess Championships was called off after 5 months, after one of the competitors lost 22 pounds.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess

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