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Fortune
Alexei Oreskovic

How playing chess from age 6 helped NFL star Larry Fitzgerald 'slow down' his thoughts while managing ADHD and think strategically as an investor

(Credit: Stuart Isett/Fortune)

Professional athletes represent an increasingly important class of startup investors, with a variety of factors driving their decisions about which projects to back, and which to pass on.

For veteran NFL wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald Jr, the decision to invest in chess.com goes back to his youth, when the centuries old board game had a formative influence in his life and helped him manage the challenges of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

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