Do you think chess is a sport?????

Actually it does is required to get the information that the respective board game is an sport or not. As many people think like sports means only physical games/entertainment. And indoor games are useless tho they don't care whether there are brain games etc in fact, ches tho does not take body exertion it takes exertion with the BRAIN. And BRAIN is MORE important than BODY. And also Rather than entertainment it has alot of other productive benefits. 

Chaps, Chess is really a sport.

Flashback time!

So chess started somewhere in India then spreaded to the middle east, east asia, and europe. Before it was not considered a sport thus it was just a boardgame for past times. Years pasts, in the 19th century, Paul Morphy somehow made chess into a sport, by him becoming the US champion of chess then he fought the greatest chess players of Europe and thats where he he became unstoppable until he died, i somehow consider him the 1st Bobby Fischer. Then some years pasts (again) it rosed to popularity and we can see the aftermath  on how chess sport championship started from Wilhelm Steinitz, then the Emmanuel Lasker Reign, then Jose Raul Capablanca, then Alexander Alekhine era, then the Pre-War Tensions, the creation of FIDE, The Soviet Empire controlling everything, Bobby Fischer becoming the unstoppable player, Kasparov becoming world champ, then the most dirtiest match of the century of Karpov and Korchnoi, Kasparov vs Karpov, the fight between the split titles or known as the fight for the world champion, Then came Viswanath Anand who became world champion, then comes the Magnus Carlsen Era who we mostly call it the Human Stockfish. Everything i said through Wilhelm Steinitz to Magnus Carlsen is all part of the Chess Championship where we can already call chess a sport.

Yea!

If chess is a sport, are checkers, backgammon, and Risk also sports? 

Chess is considered a sport by the IOC.

The mental energy required to play chess at a high level is great enough that it makes up for the fact that there is no actual physical exercise happening.

Yes. Although backgammon and risk would be more of a sport because they have the physical necessity of rolling dice, drawing cards, etc. Fortunately chess does not require any physical inputs as both ADA and FIDE have been very accommodating in that regard. 

It comes down to if chess is a sport, then basically all card games and board games are also sports. Since all sports, games, human effort of any kind, require mental effort it would mean all human activity is a sport. 

no lol its a game 

it’s competitive but that doesn’t make it a sport 

its a mind sport

Yes.

Therefore chess isn't a sport.

Sorted.

Oh sure, Chess is a sport. Just like checkers, boggle, parcheesi, and tic tac toe.

You're right. I don't get it. You do (as the authority of "language" and "vocabulary". 

Lmao, so rude.

i am replying to such an old forum..

This should explain or at least show the language difference in what should be pretty simple and clear terms.

You don't reply to a "forum", you reply to a "post". You post a "post" in a "thread". "Threads" are posted in a "forum". And if there are many different forums on one site, they are "subforums" (like here with general chess etc) while the main site where all subforums are collected is what we would call a "forum". 

How can this be anything but clear for anyone who been online for more than a year?!

Lol, no one asked? FYI, people call it forum. And you don’t need to be so rude, and idc. 

It's not rude to point out when someone is wrong. But most importantly it was a clear example why some call chess a sport and others don't: when simple terms as "forum" which shouldn't be confused are misused, why wouldn't more ambiguous terms like "sport" be open for interpretation and what "people call it".

Uh….I didn’t say I thing about sport and chess, but I call it forum…and technically it’s not wrong. But thanks for correcting me, you are right.

Its an Esport

Chess, in my opinion, is a sport. In this world, many people consider sport to be only physical, but I and many others believe that there is a mental aspect related to it. Basically, there is mental and physical sport, and chess is a mental sport, not a taco 😂.