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@BestChessPlayer12378 said in #30:
> Really? I don't think chess is a sport,sport is like football which let your body move.
However, some classical games of chess last up to 7 hours. With increased heart rate, under that pressure, grandmasters have to play. In other words, under stress from games, grandmasters really burn 6,000 calories, according to Robert Sapolsky, a professor at Stanford university who studies stress in primates.

Source: lichess.org/@/NoelStuder/blog/settling-the-debate-is-chess-a-sport/q4BWy2UN

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