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The Conversation: Checkmate: top chess players live longer

May16
Chess Players

CEPAR Chief Investigator Professor Philip Clarke and CEPAR Senior Research Fellow Dr An Tran-Duy, in collaboration with Dr David Smerdon, compared elite chess players with Olympic medallists to determine whether it’s your mind or muscle that best predicts how long you will live. They discuss the results of their study in this Conversation article.