Optimizing the mind and body for chess?

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  • Optimizing the mind and body for chess?

    Perhaps we can also use this thread for any health/body/mind issue that affects chess performance.

    This looks to be a serious scientific study of the connections between sleep and chess performance, on the website of an organization called the National Library of Medicine.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7401575/
    Last edited by Fred Henderson; Saturday, 22nd April, 2023, 09:33 AM.

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    An espn article on chess and diet. Looks to me a cut or two above the... stuff you get on chess websites.

    https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id...-playing-chess

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    • #3
      oooooh, check this out. Chess and nootropics. Love it!

      https://www.mindlabpro.com/blogs/noo...otropics-chess

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      • #4
        Fascinating articles.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Hans Jung View Post
          Fascinating articles.
          Some of this nootropics stuff looks a little questionable, as it does appear to involve performance enhancing supplements. Perhaps we should check the FIDE list of banned substances before following the advice.

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          • #6
            What about this one? An essay by GM Jonathan Rowsen about chess and concentration as one gets older. And it's on a non-chess website.

            https://aeon.co/essays/playing-chess...-concentration

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            • #7
              Jonathan -

              "I believe concentration is a defining feature of a fulfilling life, a necessary habit of mind for a viable civilisation, and that chess can teach us more about what concentration really means.....Concentration is not always so rewarding. It comes and goes, forms and collapses, builds and then crumbles, because there is an upper limit to what players can hold in their heads at any one time. I find that I move towards my upper limit and away from it repeatedly.....Unless we can learn to concentrate better, we have no chance of perceiving, thinking, talking and deciding in the ways required of us in the 21st century."

              Good stuff......

              Thanks Fred.

              Bob A

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Fred Henderson View Post
                oooooh, check this out. Chess and nootropics. Love it!

                https://www.mindlabpro.com/blogs/noo...otropics-chess
                .this is a pretty serious article about brain function, including an endorsement from NIGEL short about an herbal supplement.

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                • #9
                  I spent a lot of time googling for solid information on the habits and daily routines of the pros. There is lots to be found that is dubious imo. Forget chess.com

                  I found a pdf file The seven habits of highly successful chess players which can be found here .

                  Www.rkchessgurukul.com. The site promotes a chess school for youth in Ohio, I think they have done a good job, without going overboard on the hyperbole.
                  Last edited by Fred Henderson; Friday, 9th February, 2024, 06:21 PM.

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