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chasm1995 wrote:
Perhaps we should begin by defining a sport that way we can make efficient progress. To me, a sport is an activity done in one's spare time in which you find pleasure in participating and after playing for a while, you start to fatigue.
Suggest you spend less time in the bathroom.
I've always felt that if you can play without spilling your beer it's not a sport.
chasm1995 wrote:
Perhaps we should begin by defining a sport that way we can make efficient progress. To me, a sport is an activity done in one's spare time in which you find pleasure in participating and after playing for a while, you start to fatigue. Chess fits those criterias: I do it in my spare time, enjoy it, and for the three tournaments I've been to, I have been exhausted after the final games. Therefore, chess is a sport to me. What do you guys think?
Step 1. Define what a sport is
Step 2. Figure out if chess fits the description.
I've never seen one of these discussions settle point #1.
Chess is a difference without distinction.
TheGrobe wrote:
chasm1995 wrote:
Perhaps we should begin by defining a sport that way we can make efficient progress. To me, a sport is an activity done in one's spare time in which you find pleasure in participating and after playing for a while, you start to fatigue. Chess fits those criterias: I do it in my spare time, enjoy it, and for the three tournaments I've been to, I have been exhausted after the final games. Therefore, chess is a sport to me. What do you guys think?
Step 1. Define what a sport is
Step 2. Figure out if chess fits the description.
I've never seen one of these discussions settle point #1.
However, pretty much all posts settled #2. (in a different manner from post to post, obviously).
TheGrobe wrote:
I've always felt that if you can play without spilling your beer it's not a sport.
Darts players sometimes spill their beer, so is that a sport? Bit of a grey area I think. 
kayak21 wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
I've always felt that if you can play without spilling your beer it's not a sport.
Darts players sometimes spill their beer, so is that a sport? Bit of a grey area I think.
If I wanted to, I could play basketball or soccer while holding a beer in my hand and not spilling it. I just wouldn't be a very good player.
kayak21 wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
I've always felt that if you can play without spilling your beer it's not a sport.
Darts players sometimes spill their beer, so is that a sport? Bit of a grey area I think.
Well, you do have to make some adjustment to the methodology for drunkenness, but as a general guiding principle....
macer75 wrote:
kayak21 wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
I've always felt that if you can play without spilling your beer it's not a sport.
Darts players sometimes spill their beer, so is that a sport? Bit of a grey area I think.
If I wanted to, I could play basketball or soccer while holding a beer in my hand and not spilling it. I just wouldn't be a very good player.
I think maybe now we're contesting the meaning of the word "play".
TheGrobe wrote:
kayak21 wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
I've always felt that if you can play without spilling your beer it's not a sport.
Darts players sometimes spill their beer, so is that a sport? Bit of a grey area I think.
Well, you do have to make some adjustment to the methodology for drunkenness, but as a general guiding principle....
I was about to point out that under the terms of the initial definition almost anything could be considered a sport at certain points in the night, so yes, I agree with the need for contextual adjustment.
I think we have had this question before, but of course chess is similar to Formula 1... just look at the flag.
And of course the speed of blitz is similar to that of a Ferrari whizzing round the track.
theoreticalboy wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
kayak21 wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
I've always felt that if you can play without spilling your beer it's not a sport.
Darts players sometimes spill their beer, so is that a sport? Bit of a grey area I think.
Well, you do have to make some adjustment to the methodology for drunkenness, but as a general guiding principle....
I was about to point out that under the terms of the initial definition almost anything could be considered a sport at certain points in the night, so yes, I agree with the need for contextual adjustment.
It's important to keep in mind that some performance enhancers may also blur the lines a little:
why would you want to have chess to have similarities anyway???
chess its noble and outdoor its a tad primitive, i mean its nice and fun but still... outdoor sports you can train a monkey to do it, and probably they even would do it better, because they have the better genes for it. But chess is the ultimate sport for mankind, mankind that dominated creation with theirs brains.
Now Monkey Olympics are an idea I could get behind.
lol ofc sport is great and its healthy to work your body, its healthy for your body and probably for your brain as well. But i still think chess should be more honorful and other sports should want to be associated with it and not the other way around.
TheGrobe wrote:
Now Monkey Olympics are an idea I could get behind.
that would be fun
Some of these threads read like a Monkey House Olympics.
TheGrobe wrote:
chasm1995 wrote:
Perhaps we should begin by defining a sport that way we can make efficient progress. To me, a sport is an activity done in one's spare time in which you find pleasure in participating and after playing for a while, you start to fatigue. Chess fits those criterias: I do it in my spare time, enjoy it, and for the three tournaments I've been to, I have been exhausted after the final games. Therefore, chess is a sport to me. What do you guys think?
Step 1. Define what a sport is
Step 2. Figure out if chess fits the description.
I've never seen one of these discussions settle point #1.
Me neither. Maybe they should settle it now.
