it is not a sport this definition is a sport off of google, "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment."
Chess is sport?
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Its hard to read these big masseges please put little masseges .
Sep 25, 2023
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#85
@kavinu_bro it is probably not a reliable source, it is a chess blog which is probably definitely not a reliable source, and olimpiads do not decide what is a sport and what is not, reality does which is chess is probably not a sport like honestly people. If you find credible evidence or information that I am wrong I will be wrong then.
@indomitable That make no sense
Sep 25, 2023
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#87
what do you mean it does not make any sense i made myself pretty clear find some reliable data because honestly I would be happy if chess was actually a sport
Sep 25, 2023
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#88
badger_song wrote:
The idea of "Sport" is so ambiguous it's worthless. If sport were viewed as a continuum, people can identify the extreme end of the continuum, they just can't agree on where the cut off for the other limit should be, because they can't agree on what "sport" actually is. So,that pretty much ends this thread.
The word sport has multiple meanings in common usage. Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language (2001) lists 14 uses as a noun, plus verbs and adverbs.
Naturally, #3 must be dismissed because it undermines @IfPatriotGames’s insistence that the dictionary definition is determinative.
@Ziryab you mean its a sport
It is a sport it has to be because chess players burn more calories in a game than the average tennis player does in a match
Yeah thats true
People raised in western cultures are, by rote, exclusivists. For centuries we decided our cultures were the only ones. Then it was modified to be the only ones of importance, then the only advanced ones and so on. As if English dictionaries determined life.
Chess as a sport or not is no different than arguments about art or music or edible or attractive or not. Such choices and decisions, among people outside the social structures of the western contemporary world differ greatly.
Americans are particularly good at this game followed closely by western Europe. Not chess. The game of who is right. The game of who actually inhabits the center of the universe.
By the way, shooting a rifle is an Olympic sport and it only requires pulling a trigger. Significantly less energy expended than moving several chess pieces. Do all Olympic events qualify as sports?
Sep 25, 2023
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#94
Kavinu_bro wrote:
@Ziryab you mean its a sport
The word sport is broad and flexible enough to encompass chess.
However, when youth who spent too much time indoors are encouraged to take up sports, chess does not fit the bill. In that context, sports means athletics, or at least some form of physical activity. Moving pawns in speed chess or manipulating the controls to blast alien freaks in some video game are not physical activities.
Sep 25, 2023
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#95
Festerthetester wrote:
By the way, shooting a rifle is an Olympic sport and it only requires pulling a trigger. Significantly less energy expended than moving several chess pieces. Do all Olympic events qualify as sports?
Ideally without bumping the rifle.
654Psyfox wrote:
badger_song wrote:
A mutually agreed upon definition of Sport would help in deciding.
A google search defines the word Sport as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment".
Chess does not qualify as a sport because it does not involve physical exertion.
Hangliding has no competitors.
Sep 25, 2023
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#99
also olympic sports are different from sports in general but I might actually be wrong about chess not being a sport sorry you all for my horrible theory
A "sport" is a team of people, or two individuals, on a field or court, playing against each other at the same time, with an offense and a defense. Chess is a great game, but it's not a sport. (Neither is golf.)
Did you knowingly unleash the dragon upon us, or was that an accident?
There's never been a conclusive thread or answer to this question.