How do I defend the arguement that chess is a sport?

Yes. Every sport is just a game. But not every game is a sport.

Aren’t you one of those who dismissed the relevance of the views of the International Olympic Committee because of their bias? Of course the marathon is a game within Olympic Games, just as they have acknowledged chess as a sport. But their bias is only dismissed in the second case, not the first.

What about the definition of games? Does that matter here?

Yes, that was me. They ARE biased, and corrupt. Not to be believed because of credibility issues. But it's still called the Olympic Games. A venue where things like poetry, literature, and architecture were once Olympic events. If chess wants to be elevated to the status of poetry, in they eyes of Olympic believers, makes no difference to me. I suppose if people want to give the Olympic committee any credibility at all and consider chess a sport then they will also have to accept architecture is a sport. I suppose toenail painting may not be far behind.

As for the definition of games

noun a form of play OR sport, especially a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.

Chess, as well as any other board game certainly qualifies as a game under the definition. It seems like any and all sports would also qualify.

This sort of reminds me a little bit of a friend of mine. She lives in Las Vegas. Her niece has a job in "communications". Occasionally she flies in a fancy blue and white jet with the tail number 28000. Her job (and yes there are actually several people that perform this job in real life) is to translate or transcribe what certain people say. Certain elderly people who aren't really sure anymore of what they are actually saying. We all get older, we all suffer from cognitive decline. And there are times when people have to figure out what you said and if that differs from what you meant.

I think she has one of the toughest jobs in the world. And some of the things she says about her "boss" cannot be repeated here.

How do I defend the arguement that chess is a sport?
Sport is competitive exercise of the body or parts of the body.
Chess is exercise for the brain.
At least for me, brain is a part of my body.

I get headaches when I play too much chess lol it is a workout minus the physical activity

I don't even study

If chess is a sport, then a math competition is a sport, poker is a sport, black jack is a sport, debate competition is a sport and so on.

ok

It's true.Are sports.Many chess enthusiasts consider chess as very important and represent a particularly athletic and outstanding mental challenge...,and I agree.Also we can see to Chess as a Cynoptic resume of games of the human History and catalyst as inflection point to consider mind challenges as sport.Poker and Math also are feature on this point.

It's not true. The International Olympic Committee acknowledges chess as a sport and none of the others.

Disagree.American football and darts are sports that even the org you mentioned does not consider part of its policy.That does not take away from his sporting condition

The topic is not specific about IOC

Don't bring back the crazy lady.

I believe that discussion can also be a sport.It is a mental exercise and has link tradition with the ancient Greek wise world,which is very Olympic. The word Agora is equivalent to the word Forum and both are Greek and Roman concepts. If any org needs movement we can add a push-ups for those who talk mistakenly or give incorrect information.Thats can give good shape while evitate continue speech in wrong data

(1) Sport is exercising the body or parts of the body; mostly competitive.

(2) Chess is exercising the brain; often competitive.

(3) The brain is a part of the body (At least in my case it is).

Modus ponens: Chess is sport.

Logically, chess is not a sport according to definition, but in my eyes it is due to mental exertion rather than physical. They should change the definition to "Physical OR mental exertion" as opposed to just physical.

It seems that many people do not fully use the word Sport fully. The ancient Greeks did not have that word. Board games were in common use, although apparently board games were not part of large collective events.Today,when a society chooses,creates or practices a sporting activity, that is its sport. Even if other parts of the planet don't like it or prefer not to practice them.The inclusion or exclusion of one activity by any reason in a org as IOC or other comitees,dont gives "pers se" status of acceptation of that discipline,essentially, as more of less "Sportive"

In my suburb, when I was a kid, we created a sport like basketball, but we used trash cans. Here the trash cans have a thin column and do not always have lids. They are taller and are found at the entrances of many houses. The bags are removed manually in a sporty physical attitude, running collecting them following the truck.

I don't understand any of those, not just quantum thingys.