THE OG: Chess IS a Sport (AGC)

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What do all those sports have in common?

its a sport

Let me answer that. They are all physical. They all require some sort of physical interaction. They all require stragetic thinking. Chess doesn't need a physical board to be played. It does not require any physical interaction aside from calling out the notations "pawn to e4" "pawn to e5." They only require creating mental images and memory preservation, which are both mental skills. With that in mind, if anything that just requires 'mental strain' can be labeled a sport, why isn't school? Why aren't most memory games labeled as sport? To me, chess is a sort of "meta-sport" because it currently doesn't encapsulate the requirements that all other sports have. It's a meta, and I'm sure that in the future sport will come to encapsulate the game of chess, but right now? It doesn't, at least to me, and I'm sure other people share this perspective of mine.

Nobody thinks chess is a sport except the people that play chess.

Chess is a sport, maybe it is not crazy stunts or bungee jumping, but it is a mental sport to play and it uses more of your brain than most sports in general ,and it meets all of the requirements to be considered a sport as well

Chess is no more than another form of a video game. > than 99 % of players just sit in front of a screen and they never leave their homes. No human interaction. Sometimes they are just playing a computer.

A sport has to involve "physical exertion" and moving your hand is physical exertion

Eating requires "physical exertion" I guess eating is a sport now. smh.

They are athletic i guess?

Based on Oxford English Dictionary, Chess is not a sport...

Sport - An activity involving physical exertion and skill, esp. (particularly in modern use) one regulated by set rules or customs in which an individual or team competes against another or others.

Source: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sport_n1?tl=true&hide-all-quotatitrue

sadly, it is not the dictionary that sports bodies use to make classifications.

it is still extremely hard to play over the board chess without a physical body to endure the exertions of a 5 hour game at the top level.

You don't need to move your hand to play the game. Literally all you have to do is call out the moves. You don't need a board nor do you need anything physical. Remove the ball from any ball sport and you can't play it. Remove the water out of any swimming sport and you cannot participate in it. So on, so forth. Remove the chess board from the game, along with the pieces, and it can still be played. Physical exertion is not a requirement while playing chess. Even Stephen Hawking played chess.

They all have consonants in the name.

fr, like whats a dictionary going to do if I disagree, summon big books at my face? yeah right.

His point is wrong, and your point is unecessary.

you fell for his trap

“Just because i say chess is a sport, thousands of members don’t like me. they put a bounty on me.”

you never let me answer it, and boo hoo and your tilted perspective.

and #47 and #48 Only the people that play chess would call it a sport cuz like, we understand the logic, all y'all are too braindead and afraid, includes you as well.

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