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Do you consider chess to be a sport?

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teasie1234
Sep 5, 2013
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#121

Yes, definitely. It requires skill, intelligence, movement and an amazing ability to not per for at least twelve hours at a time. Pure sportsmanship if you ask me.

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rusalochki
Sep 6, 2013
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#122
Savage wrote:
rusalochki wrote:

Of course I consider it a sport! Sport is loosely defined as a form of entertainment, and battles, wars, duels, were all considered sport at one point in time. I see chess as a strategic battle, a duel between two people (or yourself :p), so I consider chess a sport! :)

I consider a square to be a circle. A circle is loosely defined as a shape or something you can draw or look at, so like, yeah.

Oh my goodness! I didn't realize this was a debate on whether chess IS a sport or ISN'T a sport. I mistakenly thought that people were being asked their personal opinions on whether they consider it a sport or not... 

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rusalochki
Sep 6, 2013
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#123
chessman1504 wrote:
Savage wrote:
iamdeafzed wrote:
It's not clear that chess can be adequately classified as being "purely mental", first off.

Aside from that: you have yet to address the point about evolving word meanings that at least I (if not others) have brought up regarding the term "sport" and how chess relates to it.

Seems perfectly clear to me; not sure what your confusion is.

There's no point about evolving word meanings here at all. As I said before: consult any reputable dictionary.

Isn't it clear that Savage isn't going to listen to anything any of you are going to say?

He's seeming to be the type of person to not accept someone's answer because it doesn't exactly correlate with his own opinion. Whateva ~

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Hohenzollern
Sep 6, 2013
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#124

No it`s Art..

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rusalochki
Sep 6, 2013
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#125
Savage wrote:
rusalochki wrote:
Savage wrote:
rusalochki wrote:

Of course I consider it a sport! Sport is loosely defined as a form of entertainment, and battles, wars, duels, were all considered sport at one point in time. I see chess as a strategic battle, a duel between two people (or yourself :p), so I consider chess a sport! :)

I consider a square to be a circle. A circle is loosely defined as a shape or something you can draw or look at, so like, yeah.

Oh my goodness! I didn't realize this was a debate on whether chess IS a sport or ISN'T a sport. I mistakenly thought that people were being asked their personal opinions on whether they consider it a sport or not... 

So reality is optional for you because you have an opinion, huh? Twit.

Trollolol. Enjoy chess.com and have fun playing chess, now! 

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-BEES-
Sep 6, 2013
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#126

It's a game, but games can be competitive. That's a mentality that is more common among my generation I think. It'll be funny when we're old and have grandkids... maybe they'll have networks that show starcraft and smash bros. tournaments.

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Jion_Wansu
Sep 14, 2013
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#127

Chess is a sport. why is poker on a sports channel like ESPN???

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AlCzervik
Sep 15, 2013
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#128

That's not a valid comparison. Obviously, there are people willing to watch poker on tv. Not too many are interested in seeing chess on tv. There are how many hundreds of cable channels? Still no chess channel that I'm aware of.

Plus, ESPN stands for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.

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IDASP
Sep 15, 2013
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#129

yes

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Jion_Wansu
Sep 15, 2013
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#130

Fox Sports has a live stream of this super chess tournament here:

 

http://www.uschesschamps.com/live

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zembrianator
Nov 10, 2015
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#131

Not really

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ONGallego
Jun 28, 2025
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#132

So if chess is considered a sport, then a job interview for arguments sake, a fireman job, is a sport aswell , or any job interview involving 2 or more people for one goal, position, and out come... to out witt the compition and win the position... then everything in life can be viewed as a spot... finishing the exam first, getting your crushes phone number, landing the highest paid job, ...for keeps and not for fun and games.. then what is considered a game is this way of thinking?