Originally posted by Sam The ShamI'm not sure why I should need to refer to your definition, while you do not refer to my definition.
Just 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.
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.
Also, as noodles has pointed out there is a school of sports where she comes from and they do teach Chess.
Also, I've said Chess can be found in the sports section of some papers, including the New York Times.
I have also pointed out that Chess is a sport, and no way an athletic sport. If you got your definition from Webster's online, you are conveniently dodging the definitions of sports that do not include the word physical or athletic.
You have twice resorted to name calling just because YOU don't agree with me. I hope there are many things we don't agree on, I feel considering you can't prove I am wrong.
When the question is posed, "Is Chess an Athletic Sport?" I will jump right in and say no.
I bid you good day.
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websters 2005 dictionary describes chess as" a "game" of skill and knowledge played on a 64 square game board,etc.etc. A "sport' is described as any of many physically competetive activities comprising mainly of physical exertion. This clearly indicates that chess in its normally accepted form is not a sport since the great majority of activity is brain activity and not physical.physical exaustion is in many cases a side-effect of this brain activity but is merely a side-effect and only in some cases.Many players are able to play many games at one time and appear to suffer no physical exaustion or tiredness to any great degree.consequently,chess is a 'board game' as it does not 'require' excessive or any great degree of physical activity,Professor Stephen Hawking plays a 'good game' of chess!!
Originally posted by RECUVICPerhaps you should have kept flipping the pages of your dictionary and looked up soccer, football, rugby, baseball, and cricket. By your logic these are not sports either, each is listed with 'game' in the definition, and not a single definition uses the word sport.
websters 2005 dictionary describes chess as" a "game" of skill and knowledge played on a 64 square game board,etc.etc. A "sport' is described as any of many physically competetive activities comprising mainly of physical exertion. This clearly indicates that chess in its normally accepted form is not a sport since the great majority of activity is brain act ...[text shortened]... degree of physical activity,Professor Stephen Hawking plays a 'good game' of chess!!
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/soccer
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/football
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/rugby
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/cricket
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/baseball
Also, refer back to my previous posts, or look the term sport up in your dictionary and you will find physical and athletic are not a stipulation of some of the definitions.
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Originally posted by Sam The ShamHave you got an Amren article on whether chess is a sport, or not, Samger?
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?
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Originally posted by kmac27if you compete with others at throwing rocks at squirrels, does that make squirrel pegging a sport?
it can be conciderd a sport in a certain way. i'm an athlete, i do not think it is a sport in the sense that it requiers no physical preperation for it. i feel that it is a sport in another way because you compete. in the aspect of competing it is a sport.
Originally posted by YUG0slavyep
if you compete with others at throwing rocks at squirrels, does that make squirrel pegging a sport?
So is plugging squirrels with high powered rifles, and good sport it is. Think about it for a minute: squirrels are rodents (kill 'em all, and you might have fewer rattlesnakes).
Originally posted by demonseedyeah darts is a sport and in my case a sport is anything to do with physical stuff
Darts is considered a sport because it involves hand-to-eye- coordination by the same token the application for chess to be considered a sport was rejected in the UK.