A typical day in the life of a professional chess player

with GM Leon Mendonca

Video: ChessBase

0:00 - Intro

0:23 - Leon played more than 150 games in 2023. How to handle this amount?

1:07 - How important is a good sleep for chess players? How long do you sleep?

2:55 - Do you have a coach? Are you reading any chess books?

3:27 - Without a schedule, how can you motivate yourself to work on chess every day?

4:13 - How important is ChessBase? Engines? And how do you use these tools?

5:03 - Real example of how Leon randomly chooses a game of his interest, and uses Chessbase for analysis.

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