Just because you get fatigued doesn't make it a physical exercise or exertion. Computer programmers, stock traders, gamers and customer service agents (phone) also feel the same fatigue that chess players feel. It's a mental fatigue that eventually takes its toll on the body. This is physical stress. It is detrimental to physiological health, unlike golf, basketball, soccer, etc. which enhances physiological health.
Do you consider chess to be a sport?
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mental sport, nothing more. Considering chess a sport sounds naive
It is if you play on one of those gigantic oversize outdoor boards.
Chess is considered a sport and I know that as a fact.
For me absolutely anything becomes a sport when it is played at a high, competitive level. That could include anything - monopoly, tiddly-winks, anything at all. There is an idea that to be considered a sport an activity should require a certain amount of physical exertion, but even if you want to adhere to this idea you have to consider the fact that intense concentration is a type of physical exertion. 'Game' would seem to include all sports as well as casual competition strictly for fun. You could also say 'game' for solitary challenges like certain Playstation games that you play alone, or solitaire, but these could become sport if two people were trying hard in a regulated and competitive setting to beat one another's scores.
Chess is a sport. And landlubber is completely moronic, baseball players are far more fit than he could ever be :)
If Nascar, Golf, hunting, badmitton, and soccer are considered sports, then so should chess.
tokyojim79 wrote:
For me absolutely anything becomes a sport when it is played at a high, competitive level. That could include anything - monopoly, tiddly-winks, anything at all. There is an idea that to be considered a sport an activity should require a certain amount of physical exertion, but even if you want to adhere to this idea you have to consider the fact that intense concentration is a type of physical exertion. 'Game' would seem to include all sports as well as casual competition strictly for fun. You could also say 'game' for solitary challenges like certain Playstation games that you play alone, or solitaire, but these could become sport if two people were trying hard in a regulated and competitive setting to beat one another's scores.
I disagree with the statement emphasized above. Mental exertion is mental exertion; the fact that it takes a toll on the physical body does not qualify as "physical exertion". This is stress that we are feeling when we become tired from mental exertion, and it is detrimental (not healthy) to our being.
No, chess is NOT a sport.
Many types of competition exist such as chess, auto-racing, debating, etc. which are clearly NOT sports. Bowling, however, and marbles (to take the worst possible examples) and archery and even target-shooting with guns and rifles are sports because of the demanding and over-riding physical element missing from chess, auto-racing, debating etc. We love a struggle whether participating or witnessing and all such struggles or competitions have sportlike features. However, sports at their base are physical interactions and may NOT always be competitive (e.g. hunting, fishing, hiking, mountain climbing, scuba diving, etc.) at all. Can some non-sports become sports? The 24-hour races in Europe can be understood to be sports, if for no other reason than their marathonlike-aspects which take the races into a truly demanding physical realm.
A1Rajjpuut escribió:
No, chess is NOT a sport.
Many types of competition exist such as chess, auto-racing, debating, etc. which are clearly NOT sports. Bowling, however, and marbles (to take the worst possible examples) and archery and even target-shooting with guns and rifles are sports because of the demanding and over-riding physical element missing from chess, auto-racing, debating etc. We love a struggle whether participating or witnessing and all such struggles or competitions have sportlike features. However, sports at their base are physical interactions and may NOT always be competitive (e.g. hunting, fishing, hiking, mountain climbing, scuba diving, etc.) at all. Can some non-sports become sports? The 24-hour races in Europe can be understood to be sports, if for no other reason than their marathonlike-aspects which take the races into a truly demanding physical realm.
Although i mostly agree with you, i don't see the "demanding physical realm" in sports like fishing and hunting, but i agree underwater hunting or spearfishing is a physical demanding sport.
Define a sport and see if chess fits in that definition. If it does, then yes, and if it doesn't, then no.
A1Rajjpuut, I agree with everything you said except claiming "auto racing" is not a sport. I feel it is. But important to this thread, I side with you that Chess is not a sport.
Oh, come on: be a sport.
Sport (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which,[1] through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participants, and in some cases, spectators.[2] Hundreds of sports exist, from those requiring only two participants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals.
Sport is generally recognised as activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition,[3] and other organisations such as the Council of Europe using definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification as sports.[2] However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, activities claim recognition as mind sports. The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports,[4][5] although limits the amount of mind games which can be admitted as sports
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Here_Is_Plenty wrote:
Oh, come on: be a sport.
HA i get your pun
Aug 24, 2013
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chess_gg wrote:
How about this...
Chess, although a board game, is often played with adrenaline, blood, sweat, tears, testosterone (yes, in case you are wondering...women also have some T) and a ferocity that is above and beyond the mere word "sport".
That should satisfy everybody. So, there is nothing more that can be said. This thread has ended.
sadly, it doesn't seem to satisfy everyone :(
And sadly, one of life's great lessons is that it never will.
Merriam Webster's definition of SPORT: