Chess is NOT a sport!!!

LMAO

Football is a game and a sport, my opinion is that because chess is such a deep game, it is also a game and a sport. There’s obviously more to chess than say tick tack toe, chess is psychological, it has beauty, and a creative richness that stems from chess’s near infinite possibility. If chess was ever solved as checkers was, then I would only call it a game. And I would argue that chess does involve physical activity, your brain is the muscle to do the hustle.

To cheater...1,hey that my kind of forum,well sort of "chess vs soccer" same kind of arguement been going there and most of them agree that chess is sport anyway bye 4 now, c u later maybe with a friendly game of chess.

i have a chess injury! i broke my jaw because of too much  yawning

Physical activity: Energetic action or movement pertaining to the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit.

Is moving a chess piece not physical activity? Also, it is governed by a set of rules and is often played competitively. So, surely then, it meets these three requirements? (Noting that darts is a sport and there isnt a lot of difference on the physical side...)

By what I have seen

Chess fits all those definitions

We don't use physical force and energy to move the peices? 

played by that great athlete, phil taylor - come on you cannot clasify darts as a sport, he may be very skilled at directing a miniature arrow at a batch of pig bristles, but can hardly retrieve the darts without a rest or 2

chess is a fantastic game able to be enjoyed by the masters and all us plebs alike, but sorry to those of you that would like to call it a sport, it just isn't

Cheater then go to wikipedia and implement that little piece of literature you wrote.

Sport: 

[quote]Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determiner of the outcome (winning or losing), but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports (a common name for some card games and board games with little to no element of chance) and motor sports where mental acuity or equipment quality are major factors.[/quote]

I'm contistipated, couldn't give a S-word though.

do you think S-word fighting is a sport ?

i think it is, no actually i'm not sure - think i'll just sit on the fence for this round

I love semantics.

 The arguement that sports require physical activity is an interesting one.  My brother helped a disabled (not a fan of the word) in a world championship bowls match.  The person he helped was unable to throw/roll (whatever) the bowl and had an elaborate ramp system (that he was unable to move as well) he would tell my brother how to line up the ramp and adjust angles and what not and the only requirement for him ( i believe) was to place the ball on the ramp and off it would go.  I believe that based on all your criteria (dictionaries are laughable at best btw) bowls qualifies as a sport... yet this person was able to compete by dropping a ball... hardly physically taxing is it?

Or perhaps if a sport is played by someone with a disability than the definition of sport changes slightly.

As a quick side - language changes faster than dictionaries can keep up.

I remember a conversation I had with an old flatmate about sports and he came up with this definition that seperated activities from being sports vs art vs games

( can't remember exactly but I'll give you the jist)

Has to be competitive
Has to involve skill as a primary component
Score keeping does not require judges (ie gymnastics is art not sport as it requires a 3rd party to rate performance)
Has to have a strong physical component

 My definition of a sport is much more broad.  Sports are games of skill.  This definition can be expanded as required but that is the jist of it.  I believe that to be a sport luck should not be a factor and if it is (in a marginal way only) then skill should always be able to beat luck.

For example, scrabble is not a sport because of the random nature of the game.  It is possible for the best scrabble player in the world to just get the worst of letters and as a result lose to a 8 year old.  It is unlikely that his letters would be THAT bad for the entire game but it COULD happen.

Based on some of cheater_1s definitions I could say cleaning my house is a sport.

 Cheater_1 has angered me before on many occasions, but never enough to warrant actually posting. This last comment almost gave me an aneurism though, so apoplectic with rage was I. We have all seen him using falsely represented references and statistics before in a manner that a 5 year old would use to win an argument, but this time he has impugned my dearly beloved English language and he needs to be set straight.

THE official lexicon of the ENGLISH (NOT AMERICAN, YOU  SIMPLETON) LANGUAGE is the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY,  not Mirriam , Webster et al. despite  them being venerable  resources in their own right. THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY (of which I own the complete 7 volume edition) DOES contain reference to physical  activity in sport, but only as part of the 3rd definition. THAT'S RIGHT, the 3rd definition, a good 1/2 a page down from it's initial summaries of the word which are:

1a) Diversion, entertainment, fun; an activity providing this, a pastime

2a) A matter providing amusement or entertainment; a joke

3a) An activity involving physical exertion, some skill, and competition. 

I hate you with a passion only slightly less than my desire to actually come and find you, but it is currently a close call. 

Chess is sport because it is, don't be ignorant cheater_1, you know this as well.
If you don't AGREE it being a sport, pose your opinion more accurately.

But you succeeded in getting our attention again so: grats

 Err...stacking DOES require physical activity and highly co-ordinated physical activity at that.

(and chess is a GAME, not a sport. What's next? Will we be making Parcheesi and Monopoly sports,too?)