Chess: Sport or Game?

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BeepBeepImA747
So why is it a game?
whiskersinthejamjar

you shoot game, so you just get out a pistol and shoot all the pieces off the board, thus chess is game.

president_max
yorygregovich wrote:
BeepBeepImA747 wrote:
The amount of athleticism needed to play chess well gives me no doubt it is a sport.
Your thoughts?

Yes indeed!

Sitting on your butt utterly motionless for lengthy periods of time staring at a board requires an elite amount of athleticism. 

It's all isometric, like a plank.

whiskersinthejamjar

sometimes the players walk around, quite slowly like zombies going fast, so from the perspective of zombies chess could well be a sport.

Nkav
Post #27 is the answer. End of discussion. (I'm on mobile so I can't quote)