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

Once you get an agreed upon definition of sport...you'll have your answer as to whether chess is a sport.

Chess is recognized as a sport by the official Olympics Comitee. And is also recognized as such in over 100 different countries.

NO

And a sport. It has also been defined as an art and a science as well.

But to the point here, it definitely a sport.

If the olympics recognizes it as a sport I can accept its a sport

http://www.chesssport.com/about/sport.html

Here's one source agreeing that chess is most certainly a sport.

Search it up, you'll find even more!

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The olympics commitee defines what is a sport, and they defined chess as a sport.

Deal with it.

That's true. They Olympics used to include things like poetry. Now, normally we don't see poetry books in the sporting goods section of the department store, for some reason they put them with literature. I know, that doesn't make any sense when obviously poetry (and painting and music) should all be with all the other sporting goods items.

But I'm not the expert. We could just ask those who attend a lesser recognized sport, say football, if poetry (or chess) are sports. I'm sure virtually all Raiders fans would agree chess is a sport. Because, you know, the Olympics recognized them as such. I'm sure there would be full agreement that poetry, literature, music, (and of course chess) are all sports. Because the Olympics says so.

There is the very slight, very remote, almost non existent possibility that the Olympics isn't the arbitrator on what is sport, since some people engage in sports that will never participate in the Olympics. It's possible, no matter how unlikely that they include things like poetry, sculpture, music, etc because they can be cultural competitions. Maybe the Olympics includes activities that are not sports.

You are probably right. But what is very strange is that in some dictionary definitions of sport, golf is actually listed as an example. I don't know why. And not a single dictionary definition lists chess as a sport. Obviously that's an editorial oversight as the blinking and fidgeting required in chess is a physical component that most people just don't appreciate. Not to mention the head scratching, ear scratching, and adjusting the pieces. Oh my, the technique, the precision, the exquisite way in which even a beginner can adjust the pieces. The physical prowess needed to center a knight after it's been placed incorrectly, it's sport in it's purest form.

Even the last world championship, where we had Nepo holding his head in his hands. The physical skill, talent, experience was mesmerizing. It takes years and years of dedicated practice to hold ones head in their hands that way. If that's not a sport, what is?

Esport

You could call chess an esport, sure. I doubt that's what people are referring to when they say chess is a sport though. You could ask them, but I think they are talking about over the board chess, not online chess.

It's time the rules of chess be changed to accommodate the fact chess is a sport. Right now the rules ignore the physical component for some reason. Chess should not be judged by who gets the checkmate. It should be judged by technique, like figure skating or dance. So when moving the pieces, was the pinky lifted the correct height? When hitting the clock, was the motion fluid or was it too jerky? And posture is very important. Judges should put more emphasis on the position of the feet during the game. Was there the required amount of varied facial expressions?

Maybe the Olympics can provide some clarity on these criteria.

There is the slight possibility that you may have that backwards. It's possible, but highly unlikely, that fighting (wrestling, boxing, kicking, etc) were invented before chess was.

But you could be right, maybe one of the first things humans ever did was play chess, and yes, fighting re creates that very first human instinct, playing chess.

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All sports require the participant to perform certain physical activities, in a certain way. The rules of all sports describe how that is to be done.

What I'm struggling with is why the rules of chess specifically allow a participant to forego those physical activities. It seems unfair that chess is the only sport where this is done. No other sport allows someone else to perform the physical part. So if we are going to include chess as a sport either the rules of chess need to be changed to put more emphasis on the physical part and stop allowing others to perform that part, OR all other sports need to adopt the chess standard, and allow others, even spectators, to perform the physical parts all the while the participant still gets credit for the performance.

This could be done very easily. In baseball for example, a spectator comes down from the stands, goes to the plate, hits a home run, and the baseball player (not the spectator) gets the credit for the home run. We could do this for all sports, which would bring them up to date with the more progressive and reasonable standards the sport of chess already employs.

It's a sport for your mind