Chess is NOT a sport!!!

Hahaha. 

Perhaps our friend Cheater_1 is just a prankster getting kicks out of behaving like a ponce on the net, that in fact this alter ego of his is just a means of channeling all the pompous, petulant trash he wouldn't dream of advocating in the real world. Maybe he is studying the effects of groundless self promotion and mindless trash talk on a relatively contained community like chess.com. Or...

Its my opinion that very sensitive folk are especially sensitive to how normal they are, and often they compensate by trying to be as eccentric as possible. With C1, this manifests as immense arrogance. I reckon he's a sensitive guy, that he thinks people dislike him because he is special and he is out to prove it. And we are helping him. Every time we trash the poor kid, he probably thinks, "yip, just as I thought, they hate me cause they cant understand me" or something to that effect. I like him, personally. In all of his statements, I hear a little fellow crying to be heard. 

Hey Waggro. Poephol indeed, hahaha. I liked that.

I play chess while wearing a cup. Therefore it's a sport. :D

over your mouth and nose like an oxygen mask and the fumes have made you delusional

your point?

Hello Everyone, sorry for taking so long. I was just doing some pushups and an ab workout to help focus on a chess match I got. 

For the topic, Chess is a sport.

Now excuse me, while I go get my sport drink....

If you don't consider chess to be a sport, then you are just not playing with a big enough chess set:

Bobby Fischer said that he physically trains alot before a tournament or match because a chessplayer would have to sit there for about 5 hours. 

hmmm...I wonder how a chessplayer would actually train and develop the muscles of 'that part of the body' to enable him to sit that long.

of or pertaining to the body is physical

a use of energy or force; an active movement or operation is activity

Physical activity: Energetic action or movement pertaining to the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit.put them together and they make the same definition

 My point? well you use your mind very heavyly during chess to win a game like wise though you are not moving too much of your hands ther is force that must come to doing so and chess my friend is a past time activity.

If you want to say things arn't a sport racing all you do is push a peddle and steer teh wheel, hunting all you do is pull a trigger... no much Physical Activity there eh? So please calm down and let it just die

by practicing going on-line with chess.com!

Show me ONE credible source that defines CHESS as a SPORT. It hasn't been done yet. Enough with the definition of what a sport is or is not, let's stick to the definition of CHESS. Show me ONE CREDIBLE source that even MENTIONS the word "sport" in the definition of chess and then I will continue this debate. And by "sport", I don't mean he or she was a good sport...you know what I mean.

SHOW me one credible source that defines chess as ANYTHING other than a game or I shall continue to inflict more pain upon you masochistic wordmongers with my wordsmithinessitude.

So we are assuming that nothing physical is going on in our brains? The brain does nothing physical while thinking?? It takes energy to think because there is a lot going on! And if you think it doesn't take energy to think then try not eating for a few days and play a game of chess! Chess is indeed a battle of the minds but to say the mind isn't a physical entity or to say it doesn't do any thing physical is just crazy! Our minds are physical! Very, very physical!!!

Please read my last post, we are NOT debating the physicality of chess (there is NONE) but rather the definition of CHESS itself.

STICK TO THE TOPIC, PEOPLE!!!