Do you consider chess to be a sport?

I don't start sweating when playing chess, but perhaps I'm in better shape than you.

Perhaps you are just not a GM playing in the world championships in front of millions of people knowing this is how you make a living.

Being nervous doesn't make it a sport either.

Nervous has got nothing to do with it ,intense concetration uses a lot of nutrients from the body,burns fat  and  causes sweating just like in any other physicall activity . Nowhere did I mention it is a sport because nerves are involved.

I would like to stay and chat but your last reply blocked the toilet in my house.

But by the same token, playing Video games all day could be considered sport.

Yep, Call of Duty can take intense concentration and burns fat. You'd have to be a slob to consider it a physical activity though, or a sport.

You gain no physical benefit from Chess. It is not a sport.

If you start sweating a lot just from playing chess you should start to do more sports.

I started sweating while reading this thread.

Chess is a game but not a sport. Not all games are sport, but all sports are games.

Every once and a while, this q pops out.

But as mutch I love the game its a game , not a sport.

I'm so sorry! This sporting thread did it too me! Let me clean up and I'll be back...

chess isn't a sport. It doesn't require any physical exertion. Raacing requires fitness. A sport involves phyiscal fitness and strategy. Chess requires strategy. A very good game but not a sport

"Would you like a sporting game of chess?" is a perfecctly grammatically and semantically correct sentence. 

Anyone who is answering this question based on the categorical notion of physical exertion doesn't understand enough about lexicography to bother with.

Chess is definitely. A simple reason could be that chess is an organized competition at usual times

League of Legends , Magic the Gathering, Warhammer (the tabletop game) all have organized competition, yet they are not sports.

Game and sport are not mutually exclusive. Chess is both.

Yes,CHESS is a sport...you are using your brain mucels insted of your brons(hahahah)....ps if chess isnt a sport then boxing isnt a sport!

Sports are activities meant to entertain who practice them and, in some cases, the spectators.

So definitely yes.

Ok, time for some mental gymnastics.  Chess may be a sport if:

1) You announce Mate in Fore!

2) It is being discussed in front of attractive members of the fairer sex.

3) You play chess-boxing, but only on the condition we accept that boxing is a bunch of mind-games.

4) You pay any attention to the documented physical toll a tournament takes on world champion level players and the fact Kasparov could rip your head off with one hand.

5) Consider Brian Laudrop, who nearly gave up football (soccer) to be a chess player.

6) Being Scottish, you get called Jock by the English till you actually believe you are a sporting Jock.

7) You acknowledge that horsemanship, lifting and leaping have their place in chess.

8) You ignore the fact that 0-0 in notation is actually a reference to the glasses worn by 73% of the sportsmen of chess.

9) The "m" on your keyboard is broken when you go to type mathlete.

10) Lastly, if you really want to see certain top WGMs in gym shorts.