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All sports are games, but not all games are sports. Baseball, Football, Basketball, Soccer, La Crosse, Boxing, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Hockey, etc. are all sports AND games.
Parcheesi, Craps, Poker, Checkers, Monopoly, Black Jack, Chess, and Twenty-Questions are games, but not sports.
But I believe there is a good case for defining Chess as a sport, and Checkers too. People don't give Checkers the respect it deserves. It's easily on the same intellectual level as chess, they just don't have the fancy names for all the openings and end-game theory. Checkers is a mo-fo to the uninitiated.
Originally posted by Sam The ShamWhat is your 'imaginary' definition of sports, may I ask?
All sports are games, but not all games are sports. Baseball, Football, Basketball, Soccer, La Crosse, Boxing, Greco-Roman Wrestling, Hockey, etc. are all sports AND games.
Parcheesi, Craps, Poker, Checkers, Monopoly, Black Jack, Chess, and Twenty-Questions are games, but not sports.
But I believe there is a good case for defining Chess as a spor ...[text shortened]... fancy names for all the openings and end-game theory. Checkers is a mo-fo to the uninitiated.
As for checkers, I was just telling another user the other day about my 'great idea'. I was playing chess some years back at Yahoo, and decided I'd go over to checkers and run the tables.
After several 'beatings' I started asking people "What is the secret to this game, can you give me some strategy tips?"
No one would divulge their deep checker secrets.
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Originally posted by Phlabibitif you're still interested, lasker wrote about checkers as well.
After several 'beatings' I started asking people "What is the secret to this game, can you give me some strategy tips?"
No one would divulge their deep checker secrets.
http://www.cs.unibo.it/~cianca/wwwpages/chesssite/lasker.pdf
Originally posted by PhlabibitWhy so angry? 😉
Can you please learn to read without putting imaginary emotions into a written text?
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Norway has a highschool/college specialising in sports (http://www.ntg.no/front/filer/presentasjon/200602143748201.pdf). Chess is one of the sports offered there. (One of the current students is Magnus Carlsen.)
Originally posted by PhlabibitMan....that's so typical of you, plab, to come up with a smarmy, condescending, dismissive question like that.
What is your 'imaginary' definition of sports, may I ask?
As for checkers, I was just telling another user the other day about my 'great idea'. I was playing chess some years back at Yahoo, and decided I'd go over to checkers and run the tables.
After several 'beatings' I started asking people "What is the secret to this game, can you give me some strategy tips?"
No one would divulge their deep checker secrets.
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OK, here's the definition, straight from a dictionary:
SPORTS: (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in
You happy now?
My definition is hardly imaginary. How about yours?
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Originally posted by Sam The Sham"The Dictionary"?!
Man....that's so typical of you, plab, to come up with a smarmy, condescending, dismissive question like that.
OK, here's the definition, straight from a dictionary:
SPORTS: (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in
You happy now?
My definition is hardly imaginary. How about yours?
I have never heard of this "The Dictionary". Webster defines it as
1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION
That plus what you have given. Most words have many definitions.
What dictionary did you paste from? Is there something there that you did not paste because it didn't fit your argument? Are you a definition dodger?
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Originally posted by Phlabibitoh jebus....OK, from A dictionary. Merriam-Webster, to be exact. That good enough for you?
"The Dictionary"?!
I have never heard of this "The Dictionary". Webster defines it as
1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION
That plus what you have given. Most words have many definitions.
What dictionary did you paste from? Is there something there that you did not paste because it didn't fit your argument?
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Now you're just quibbling...no more, I'm not falling into your cute little game of semantics. Go argue with someone else. D1ck.
(and look at my initial reply, I didn't say The dictionary anyway. Get it right if you're going to be truculent.)
But getting it right isn't your strong suit anyway, is it?
Originally posted by Sam The Shamooooooohhhhhh......phlab said I said The Dictionary , made a big stink about it, and got it wrong, I said A dictionary and now he got mud on his little pretty face.
oh jebus....OK, from A dictionary. Merriam-Webster, to be exact. That good enough for you?
Now you're just quibbling...no more, I'm not falling into your cute little game of semantics. Go argue with someone else. D1ck.
(and look at my initial reply, I didn't say The dictionary anyway. Get it right if you're going to be truculent.)
But getting it right isn't your strong suit anyway, is it?
Game over.
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Originally posted by Sam The ShamSo you only pasted the definition that fit your argument, skipping the definition that did not fit your argument. Game was over some time ago, and you are the loser.
ooooooohhhhhh......phlab said I said The Dictionary , made a big stink about it, and got it wrong, I said A dictionary and now he got mud on his little pretty face.
Game over.
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Originally posted by PhlabibitI have always seen that as a generic term for the whole event. It doesn't necessarily mean that running or gymnastics are games. In German, running would definitely not be called a "Spiel" (game), even though the Olympic Games are called "Spiele" in German, too.
Have you ever heard of "The Olympic Games"? Interesting stuff you might want to look into.
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Originally posted by PhlabibitJust give it up, phlabby, you're back out, with your crack out. You conveniently ignore things that don't don't suit you and make issues out of nothing. You know it, I know it, and so does everybody else. You're a joke on this site, so just go away.
So you only pasted the definition that fit your argument, skipping the definition that did not fit your argument. Game was over some time ago, and you are the loser.
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For further proof, please refer part one of to the definition I quoted.
(1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure
durrhhhhhhhhh. you really do suck.