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CHESS IS A SPORT, POST YOUR PROOF HERE
My only thought on the above is that one of the things that cut Tal's performance
was the fact that he suffered from a disorder that made top level performance
difficult due to the physical demands of competitive chess.
The "I-can't-stop-drinking-and-smoking-and-taking-pills disorder. I know it well
I'd like to bring the argument of shooting events in Olympic events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_at_the_Summer_Olympics
Whatever the Olynpic committee deemed as a physical activity in rifle shooting, I would like to use them as arguments for making chess into a valid sport for the Summer and/or Winter Olympics.
Chess is a sport because a few million people say it is.
Same goes for football, it's a sport because millions of people say so.
And "tag" isn't a sport because they do not have a million of people claiming it is.
Kasparov believed it was a neccesity to be phyiscally fit to be a top level player, which is why he worked out quite often. Being physically fit definitely helps being a strong chess player as well as mental capacity.
Solid point, but wasnt Tal like a drinker and smoker? I hardly believe he was fit.
Kasparov believed it was a neccesity to be phyiscally fit to be a top level player, which is why he worked out quite often. Being physically fit definitely helps being a strong chess player as well as mental capacity.
Solid point, but wasnt Tal like a drinker and smoker? I hardly believe he was fit.
Which made it all the more physically demanding.
Chess is recognized as a sport by the International Olympic Committee. It's actually how the infamous anti-doping rules came to apply to chess. A few of the national sport ministries told the national federations for all the particular sports that they would give them money if they instituted drug testing, so the chess federations signed up, even though doping is not a problem in chess--it's basically free money at a small inconvenience to some of the players.
That said, having played in chess tournaments and in tournaments of the more traditional sports, I think it's completely different--coming back from a chess tournament, my brain feels crushed; coming back from a sports tournament, my body feels crushed. I guess the thing they have in common is they both have the power, when I lose, to make my soul feel crushed.
Lifted from a Health Book, circa the (early) 1970's?
"Chess is a sport that requires little or no body contact."