is chess a sport?

Originally posted by ivanhoe
It is ... if the game is played in a structured competitive setting such as a league or in the context of a match or a tournament.

Stop. You're trying to say this game is a sport and I'm saying you can't give me ten good pushups. Chess is not a sport, anymore than poker is a sport. Chess imposes none of the conditions or requirements on a person that a sport does: it does not require physical exertion or hand-eye coordination, there is no physical risk to a participant. A 40-pound man can do it while completely under the influence of psychotropic and/or hallucinogenic substances - perhaps not well, but he can still pick up a 2-ounce piece of wood and move it from one place to another. It is not possible for 400-pound men to play soccer, football, drive a racecar, shoot a basketball, climb a cliff, defend a wicket, or any of the other myriad activities one performs when playing an actual sport.

Chess is a game. It is not a sport.

Originally posted by sasquatch672
Stop. You're trying to say this game is a sport and I'm saying you can't give me ten good pushups. Chess is not a sport, anymore than poker is a sport. Chess imposes none of the conditions or requirements on a person that a sport does: it does not require physical exertion or hand-eye coordination, there is no physical risk to a participant. A 40-p ...[text shortened]... tivities one performs when playing an actual sport.

Chess is a game. It is not a sport.

Well, if you define bread as being white than brown bread isn't bread.

Originally posted by ivanhoe
Well, if you define bread as being white than brown bread isn't bread.

Well if you completely detach meaning from words than anything can be anything. I'd forgotten how maddening you can be. Why not just call chess a purple?


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Yes. Chess is a purple.

Originally posted by sasquatch672
Stop. You're trying to say this game is a sport and I'm saying you can't give me ten good pushups. Chess is not a sport, anymore than poker is a sport. Chess imposes none of the conditions or requirements on a person that a sport does: it does not require physical exertion or hand-eye coordination, there is no physical risk to a participant. A 40-p ...[text shortened]... tivities one performs when playing an actual sport.

Chess is a game. It is not a sport.

Well my football coach said football was 60% mental and 40% physical. On this basis football is less of a sport than it is. But chess has physical exertion if mental powers count as physical.

Originally posted by jman566
here's a question many people have asked me. Is chess a sport? What do you think

Answer:

Yes, Chess IS a sport, just not athletic by definition. It's been on ESPN, and is in the New York Times Sports section like it or not. It's just not an athletic sports.

Athletics and Sports are different. Some sports are less popular, granted. Table Tennis, Bowling, Darts, and Pool are some other sports, they are arguably not athletic.

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Originally posted by jman566
here's a question many people have asked me. Is chess a sport? What do you think

you mean "is it an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature?"
i'd say no, unless the board is huge and the pieces are heavy in which case it becomes a sport