Chess is NOT a sport!!!

haha some athletes :)

Grand Chill: if you look through the thread (don't bother...it's long and pointless) we've established that wikipedia is not a reliable source and the IOC has already been mentioned.

Chess is a game that has aspects of an art, a science, and a sport. The sport part comes in in the grueling physical endurance often required of its top practioners. One has only to read of how many pounds have been lost in the course of some of the championship matches. This is why the match preparation of some champions has included things like tennis and swimming. Physical fitness definitely played a part in the epic Kasparov-Karpov matches, for example. It is also the reason why the highest levels of chess belong mostly to the young, and why a relatively young Kasparov would bow out of competitive chess and become a chess elder in his forties--like a baseball player with bad knees.

I enjoy this topic and I think it need to be on the "recent thread" list forewer! OK; I must admit, it's partialy for I am in love with cheater_1.

Are we still feeding this troll? 

Apparently YOU marshall dillon just threw me a HUGE piece of FILLET MIGNON.....mmmmmmmmmmm

I can't do anything agaist the facl I like this particular troll!

Lydia, please stop liking me. It's not that I don't like you.....Blonde is my favorite hair color. It is just not a good idea to like me. I am a road that leads to nowhere...fast. I am high maintenance. I need constant attention. I bite the hand that feeds me. I am unappreciative. I corrupt the innocent. I am a bad influence. You are too good for me. Please, HATE ME.

I LOVE YOU TOO CHEATER_1... I sure hope you can go both ways... IF you know what I mean ...

who cares if it is a sport...

cheater_1, my darling: I see you hate to be loved, but I love it for it's a part of your iresistible personality!

I'm sitting here in my spandex leotard fully talced. The only viable excuse is that chess is a sport.

cheater_1, methinks you have chosen just those definitions of sport that serve your argument.  A more objective observer ,like myself for instance, looked up sport in two dictionaries I have at my finger tips. First I consulted the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and found the first entry as follows:  sport  n.  (15c)   1.  a :

a source of diversion : recreation ;  b : sexual play ;  c (1) physical activity engaged in for pleasure.   I also consulted Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary and found as the First definition:  sport, n. 1, any activity or experience that gives enjoyment and or recreation;  pastime; diversion.  Notice the qualifier "any" .  Certainly, sport does not by definition require physical activity, but may include it.  So, I suggest you be a good sport, (yet another definition of the word!) and resign your position( in this case, argument).  Don't make me go to the OED!  And thank you for your interesting and fiery argument!  

Nobody has yet defined basketball.  I don't want to refer to AskOxford.com!  Please...I just can't construct my premises.  Otherwise I will be accused of confusing people.

Maybe if we keep arguing this matter, it will receive more air time than resigning?

lol jedimaster... what would u call this if it is not a sport? a hobbie maybe?

@ Gokukid: " Nobody has yet defined basketball". It's not true. Basketball is defined by rules of games, as like as chess is!

PIRATEDOG, finally, a legitimate debator. Thank you. First off, I look down on people who argue that "my dictionary is better than your dictionary", or "my online dictionary is better than yours". Please refrain from that method of arguing--it is amateuristic.

Second, allow me to CLARIFY a few things for you and all the dictionary greenhorns out there. When a dictionary states defintions and puts them down, 1,2,3 etc. it DOES NOT mean that the first defintion is BETTER than the forth, it only means there are different SENSES of the word being defined. Definition 1 is in NO WAY better or more popular or holds more value than definition 7.

Now, the first definition that YOU site (I love using people's OWN weapons to destroy them) is "a source of diversion : recreation " that is one SENSE of the word. It does NOT mean that any source of a diversion is a sport. COME ON, I get diverted by watching hummingbirds in my backyard, are you going to tell me that I am engaged in a sport? I get diverted by watching young blond girls in short shorts and halter tops, is girl watching a sport? Jeez, I think you'd consider ANYTHING a sport! Also,  "b : sexual play" is not the SENSE of the word that we are looking for (we're not talking about sex after all) so it is disregarded.

 The SENSE of the word that we are looking for just happens to be what you cited: c (1) physical activity engaged in for pleasure.  I trust I have made my point.

Now, the American Heritage DIctionary (no more or less reputable that any other dictionary on the planet) does not have the word "any" as your defintion did (did you just add that word, hmmmmmm?), "A specific diversion involving physical exercise and having a set form and body of rules; game." Is my dictionary's defintion better than yours? Hmmmmmmmm?

What is lost on ALL OF YOU DUNDERHEADS is the actual definition of chess. Once again, I ASK ANYONE to post a definition of chess from a CREDIBLE source that calls it a SPORT. I have yet to see a link posted that defines chess as a sport. Please, someone post it so that I can have FUN and rip it to shreds. It won't stand up against my battery of LOGIC and COMMONSENSE. The truth is on my side, people...I cannot be defeated.

Here is a tidbit for you all to ponder. The ASK OXFORD website, the FREE VERSION of the Oxford dictionary (yes it's run by the same people who run oed.com) defines chess as: • noun a board game for two players, the object of which is to put the opponent’s king under a direct attack, leading to checkmate.  http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/chess?view=uk

If you people view board games as sports, what's next, the SPORT of MONOPOLY? GET A GRIP.

ok then lol

Chess is.........CEREBAL COMBAT.....my new book the "DUSKEY" deals with this ...a psychological thriller about a serial killer who plays chess...will be out shortly...if you want first let me know....btw..Combat is not a sport...it's life death