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		czx4f4bd on Aug 11, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why thinking hard makes us feel tired Still not burning 6000 calories. > In our study, we found calorie expenditure during chess competition (156.8 ± 65 kcal) and during running exercise (282.9 ± 82.7 kcal) were significantly different from each other, simply due to the overload effect of skeletal muscles during exercise. https://journals.lsu.lt/baltic-journal-of-sport-health/artic...

initplus on Aug 12, 2022 [–]

This study found that energy expenditure when playing chess was ~2.3x higher than when resting.

And these are just amateur players. Maybe it's not 6000 calories but it is a significant increase over the base rate.

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