OOH. Ok my bad. Thank you for clarifying that for me. Sorry if I seemed a bit out of place with my last comment. Now, I don't know much about FIDE but I have heard about all of the sport talking within it and this whole issue. Part of my believes it but more does not. I have to say I over exaggerated when I said it was like a marathon. Your correct. I read an article once about chess being a sport. If I can find it again on here I will gladly show it to you. How about a friendly game sometime :). Keep playing everyone!
Chess as a sport???
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So yeah Irontiger, I misunderstood what you were saying and I am sorry for judging you. How about a game with me sometime eh?
conejiux wrote:
Archery is an Olympic sport that doesn't need intense effort...
But less than chess ? Come on...
Ok, I made the research :
Archery : http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-burned-archery-non-hunting-a371
It's still around twice more than chess, if I believe this http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/7527/does-playing-chess-burn-as-many-calories-as-running
(even if taking the highest value of the table for chess).
Ah yes. ARCHERY. One of my favorite sports aside from fencing. It takes great eye strength and and mental work to try to get it to your mark. Chess is played in many ways though. You can be an attacking player who tries to get the job done quick and easy or you could play defensive and take your time and conserve your energy. But archery is amazing. It is incredible how they can see that distance to their target and then hit it. My eyes are not that good but I like to do archery sometimes :). Thanks for the comment. Both archery and chess have a great mental strain. Play strong my friends.
Every definition of a sport I've found referring to an athletic competition refers to a physical competition, in other words a contest where both skill and physical ability both come into play. Chess takes a lot of skill and mental ability, but little in the way of physical ability. Stephen Hawking could play chess if he had someone move the pieces for him (I don't know if he plays or not, but I bet he'd probably be rated higher than me).
Frankly I think it's just a game, though one which takes incredible brain power, but not a sport. However, I don't really care if anyone wants to label it a sport or not, but it just seems silly to rank it up there with professional football, for instance.
May 10, 2013
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"Sport" is defined culturally. In many eastern european nations, chess is a sport and is covered as such. In the US, chess is treated more as just another board game.
There's no single answer to whether chess is a sport because the very notion of what constitutes a sport is defined differently in different places.
N2UHC, I agree with your statement about not ranking it up with football. I do realize that it is not an actual "sport-sport" and by understanding that I can say that I believe that we all have great opinions about this topic and many ideas. Considering chess a sport in other countries would be accurate because those countries might take more time training their players be them old and young. I do feel that we have great players in our country as well though. Players like Hikaru Nakamura and Alex Lenderman who I had the honor to play against :). Play strong my friends.
From Websters Dictionary:
Definition of SPORT
1
a : a source of diversion : recreation
b : sexual play
c (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in
I guess based on a, it is a sport. I never thought of it as a sport. To me, a sport is a physical competition. Sure, there is some physical stamina required in chess, to sit that long for example, but the winner isn't the best sitter. I guess I'm wrong though.
May 10, 2013
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SlimReaper99 wrote:
Sure, there is some physical stamina required in chess, to sit that long for example, but the winner isn't the best sitter. I guess I'm wrong though.
The Germans have a word: sitzfleisch
It refers to:
1) The muscles in your ass.
2) The ability to USE these muscles to win by outlasting your opponent.
May 10, 2013
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#31
Woah woah woah! I just read a comment on this thread saying if we made a chess a sport "it will magically make it of equal standing to football or athletics."hThis comment is crazy chess is already on the same level as these sports if not on a higher level. I personally think it's on a much higher level then the stupid brutish game of foot ball(American Football I mean).
May 10, 2013
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#32
LordHarnois wrote:
... chess is already on the same level as these sports if not on a higher level. I personally think it's on a much higher level then the stupid brutish game of foot ball(American Football I mean).
... although Football can justly claim to have a lexicon of far more suggestive homo-erotic terminology.
... tight end, two-on-one, long bomb, bump-and-run, dicker-rod, double coverage, end zone, etc.
May 10, 2013
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@blueemu
You are correct good sir, I can't even think of one good chess term that can be twisted to seem gay. I'll keep trying though.
Savage wrote:
Where is the physical activity that would qualify chess as a sport??
Many sportsmen are all brawn no brain, but chess requires real brain exercise...more than some other sports require
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NxaC3jEGkY
Well Savage, its true. Bobby Fischer even said that you need to have strength in body to play chess because it weakens you. Really it does. Its not a funny matter. Its serious and I have read these studies. And I think it is a very nice comment :)
May 10, 2013
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Vladimir Kramnik was listed by Time magazine as one of the athletes of the year in 2000 for his victory over Kasparov.
Savage wrote:
bestmom wrote:
Studies have shown that people who play a chess game or a tournament where each game lasts 3-4 hours, it is the equivilant of running a marathon or playing any type of sport.
That's hilarious, right there...
studies produced by people who have never ran a marathon.
Chess is fatiguing because it is an anti stressor. Specifically it calms activation of the right hemisphere that is present in fight flight situations. Paradoxically in chess this fear that is normally present in actually fighting situations is a good thing to have because chess quiets this in players, and this feeling is similar to that experienced in lifting heavy weights, that of utter fatigue. I believe there are many parallels of heavy weight lifting and chess playing, and I have decided to use this by incorporating chess study in between sets of the weights.
It is this fatigue that is but one element that is so exciting about chess. The movement of the game and the exhaustion it provides is one of the few avenues of dealing with everyday stressors that are enough to cause people to snap.
the reason why FIDE and many others want chess to be a sport is ...MONEY .. a lot of organizations proudly say they sponsor sport, but if a local chess club comes along and ask for money they are turned down.