Checkmate: top chess players live longer
- Written by Philip Clarke, Professor of Health Economics, University of Melbourne
Chess players live up to 14 years longer than the general population.from www.shutterstock.com
In 2014, a chess competitor collapsed during his final match of the Chess Olympiad in Norway. Within hours, another was found dead in his hotel room. Earlier, a chess grandmaster died of a heart attack while playing a tournament game in Finland in 2000....