These elite players, however, are the exception within the chess world: they have the money and the specialist entourage that allows them to put a high priority on fitness and well-being.
She has an entourage of a dozen specialists, including a swim coach, a nutritionist, flexibility experts, a mental coach and a specialist in massaging her lymph system.
That is why the president's entourage of Secret Service agents, communications specialists and military aides includes John O. Brennan, Mr. Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, who wore a suit and tie on a sunny Friday here to take questions from more casually dressed reporters ("I don't do down time," he deadpanned).
That evening, McKinsey arrived at the hearing, in the auditorium of the Shelter Island School, with a small entourage of lawyers and an addiction specialist, and sat in the front row.
ART WITH AN ENTOURAGE: For every Damien Hirst installed, emergency specialists, art handlers and riggers are on hand to deal with hazardous materials or to place each pill in its place.
Other entourage members can include a hitting partner, a specialist coach brought in to work on just one stroke (such as Djokovic hiring Mark Woodforde in 2007 to improve his volleys), dieticians, as well as other family members or close friends.
England's 72-man entourage left for Brazil with a chef, a grass specialist and an in-house psychiatrist, and lasted five days.
As The Guardian's Daniel Taylor writes: "England have a 72-strong entourage from the Football Association including a psychiatrist, nutritionists, a turf specialist, a cook and at least one guy whose job seems to be to spray the players with water when they start overheating".
