Today’s indoor rowing combined rowing 15,000 meters and chess at the same time. I didn’t play chess while on the rowing machine, like the two guys in the above photo did. Instead, I watched two lectures on chess.
The two guys in the above photo played “erg chess.” They each set their rowing machines to count down the same distance and took turns making chess moves and rowing. When it was one guy’s turn to make a chess move, he was not allowed to row… each of them could only row while it was the other person’s turn to make a chess move. The winner was either the one who finished the distance or the one who put the other one into checkmate, whichever happened first.
If you want to see how it turned out, the 9 minute 54 second video is at THIS LINK on row2k.com.
Happy, innovative rowing to you.