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Chess In The Olympic Games?

Chess In The Olympic Games?

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Originally posted by 7ate9
No idea why i've never seen this topic before, but what do you think about it. Should chess be in the olympic games or not?
YOU ARE KIDDING!!!!

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Originally posted by 7ate9
No idea why i've never seen this topic before, but what do you think about it. Should chess be in the olympic games or not?
Chess players would never pass the drug tests. None of them would be steady enough to piss in a bottle.

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Originally posted by 7ate9
No idea why i've never seen this topic before, but what do you think about it. Should chess be in the olympic games or not?
theres nothing atheletic about chess.

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Originally posted by EcstremeVenom
theres nothing atheletic about chess.
Ok we can play OTB,you are about to promote a pawn and you have 10 seconds on your clock.I throw the Queen across the room.Now be athletic. 🙂

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Originally posted by aspviper666
Ok we can play OTB,you are about to promote a pawn and you have 10 seconds on your clock.I throw the Queen across the room.Now be athletic. 🙂
that would be as bad as the one guy who won the gold medal and wrapped hisself in the american flag. lol

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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=chessboxing

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never heard of chess boxing? a 'legitimate' sport coming to a ring near you soon!

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Originally posted by 7ate9
No idea why i've never seen this topic before, but what do you think about it. Should chess be in the olympic games or not?
No.

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Originally posted by 7ate9
all sports involve your body and mind in different percentages. chess is mostly the mind.

i never thought of it myself, untill buying a copy of penthouse which Alexandra Kosteniuk was interviewed.

"You know, my dream has always been to see chess as a part of the olympic games, because I see the olympics as an important way to measure the ideal in human ...[text shortened]... den halt."

A. Kosteniuk (ranked 2nd women's chess)
yeah, shes a woman jk lol

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Ooh, can we have Tiddly Winks too?

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Originally posted by 7ate9
No idea why i've never seen this topic before, but what do you think about it. Should chess be in the olympic games or not?
No disrespect intended, but the reason you haven't seen this topic before is because it's ridiculous. Chess is not a sport. Therefore it has no place in the Olympic Games.
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