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

I would say it is, you are using some skill in order to beat your opponent. And if gaming is considered a sport than chess surely is as well.

This was made when @give_it_a_rest was still @poorbi :0

It is a sport according to the Olympics.

I'm not going to disagree with they olympics on whats a sport

It'd be interesting to see the results of a survey of GMs being asked this question. Only GMs, nobody else.

For example, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognizes chess as a sport, which they include in the World Mind Sports Games. (Google search result)

Chess is a sport, you can't change my mind. If chess-boxing (It exists, look it up) is a sport, so is chess, because it's a huge part of it. Chess might not be the greatest definition of a sport, but i still think it is, and the Olympics also recognize it as a sport. so there.

Is an sport, a mental sport, because you have to spend time training and it has is own rules and have championships and tournaments

an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

(The definition of sport)

Mental exertion effects us physically, so I would say it takes physical energy to use your mind to play chess.

Just looked it up, the average chess player burns 132 calories per hour of chess, a lot more than i thought it'd be

That's incredible. I didn't know they had self flying airplanes back then. What kind of computer did the airplane use to fly itself?

So you agree poetry, as well as architecture, are sports. Right?

That's a good example. Studying for a test, which is also a sport, burn 130 calories per hour. Staring at a wall, while not quite the celebrated sport it should be, burns about 100 calories per hour. People forget just how difficult it is to do absolutely nothing, except staring at a wall. Surely an Olympic sport someday.

Ok, I gotta admit, the wall staring example is a good example. I had no idea it burned that many calories. Now I'm thinking a study should be done for rock, paper, scissors.

I just googled how many calories are burned doing nothing and apparently 40 - 55 are burned each hour. Doing no exercise at all burns about 1800 calories each day. Hmm, that sounds like a good exercise plan.

You chose a bad analogy. Is your friend 75-85+ years old? His grandfather would need to have been born around 1890-1898 to have been killed by the red baron in combat. Have you ever piloted an airplane? Flown aerobatics? Are you aware of the g-forces involved, the nauseating disorientation, g-force blackouts, let alone the stress & adrenaline burn and physical after affects of aerobatics in combat, while flying highly flammable primitive aircraft without a parachute? A lot of those planes burned before they hit the ground. Life or death in combat of any kind is nothing like a chess game. German pilots weren't widely issued parachutes until the last few months of WWI. The parachutes were attached to the planes by static line for parachute deployment, they worked about 2/3 of the time. American pilots were not issued parachutes in WWI, as the thought at the time was that it might encourage them to jump from fear to avoid combat and they didn't want to lose airplanes that way. Read the link if interested.

https://www.thehistoryreader.com/military-history/parachutes-world-war-1/

Lol...he did much better than your average cat.

Changing your mind would definitely be a sport

Making you care what others think would definitely qualify as a sport.