Chess isn't a sport

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bro chess is obviously a sport

I don't think that's possible. According to the rules the king has to move first to castle, moving two squares. The rook then jumps over the king. If the rook were touched first it wouldn't be a legal castle. The rook would just have to be moved somewhere else.

Ohhhhh right I forgot

I will show you how chess is sport

Muscles are used In chess

Breathing is a sport then

So taking a dump is a sport then? 🙃

holy cornballs...

it's a sport in some ways, others, not so much

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Taking a dump has always been a sport

A definition can be changed, gay somehow went from happy to liking one of your own gender, so in the past, chess was a sport, and definitions do not change, so gay means happy and the definition of sports is still a game of activity as in the mind or physically

And I'm president, checkers sucks, why are you even here

Oh, and knights

Well it can certainly take a lot out of you, if you know what I mean 😅🥴

Its a sport because its a competition.Might not be physical but if you are looking for a mental sport and test your mental strength thats the one.

So it's a sport because it's a mental competition?? So all board games, which are all mental competitions are sports? So Risk, Sorry, and Monopoly are sports?

It’s a sport

Chess is not really the sprint. It is the training camp, the weather report, the remembered avalanche, the imagined avalanche, the map of avalanches that never happened. The actual move on the board is almost disappointing in comparison. A hand travels six inches. A clock clicks. Nobody breaks a sweat except internally. Most of the game already happened in silence long before the pawn moved.

The “sport” part of chess resembles an athlete standing at the edge of the pool for four hours visualizing the dive — then finally jumping once.

A boxer throws punches.
A runner runs.
A chess player mostly asks:
“What if he does this?”
“And then what if I do that?”
“And what if he expected me to expect that?”

It is a competitive recursion engine disguised as furniture.

Which is why arguments about whether chess is a sport feel strange to me. Chess behaves more like preparation itself becoming the event. A tournament is a public exhibition of private planning collisions. Two libraries headbutting each other.

And sometimes the grandmaster who spent twenty years memorizing openings loses to a twelve-year-old who simply noticed the ceiling was on fire.