Board Game Sports

I read a forum/topic earlier about the question of "is chess a sport". some said yes, others said no. but if chess is a sport, does this make ALL board games a sport? or JUST chess?

Chess is a sport for sure

it's in the olympiads and international sports association

but what about other board games?

Just chess. Unless you count scrabble and reversi, which both have tournaments.

EDIT: google what reversi is

But, I'm pretty sure that for american colleges chess counts as a sport. other board games don't. to be classified as a sport, im pretty sure you need to have tournaments and it has to have some exercise. chess exercises your brain btw

Chess is definitely NOT a sport. It's a game, it's not a sport at all.

The reason it's been pushed as a sport is that sports fall under a category that allows for extra funding. This is because real sports have well-known benefits - making people stronger, faster, coordination, getting exercise, team work in many sports, and so on. So funding is set aside by governments etc. to promote sport in society.

Chess has very few of those things and is a much less healthy practice than most sports. Sitting in front of a board or a screen with a board is not like or a substitute for being like being outside running around playing a sport, that's ridiculous.

what about life-sized board games? ones with huge pieces? or human chess, in which you ARE the pieces?

it is recognized as a sport by the ioc

Chess is life!

Wait... what if chess isn't a board game?

woah.. I mean you CAN use a computer for it so is it just a "game"? but what about chess boxing.. is it then a "sport"? : O but then.. chess VR.. what would you say THAT is?

Large sports bodies like the IOC can't be taken as credible sources of information in the modern world unfortunately. Look at how FIFA awarded the world cup to Qatar. Look how the sports organizations allow men to compete in women categories if they say they feel like being a woman.