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

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then why are u here

why are you here

sure bud

I also doubt many people watch archery. BUT it's fair to say people who don't participate in archery will still watch it. Wouldn't you agree people who dont play chess will never watch it?

There are always going to be fans of any sport or game. But one of the defining differences between chess and sports is how it's viewed. Let's not take the high profile examples of the Super Bowl, World Series, or World Chess championship. Instead just an ordinary professional baseball or football game versus an ordinary professional chess tournament.

Which one will have viewers who have NEVER played the activity? You will see someone who has NEVER played football watch the entire non super bowl football game. Lots of people in fact. Maybe at home, maybe at a bar, etc. But how many people who have NEVER played chess watch an average chess tournament? I think you have to admit, it's pretty close to zero and most likely going to be zero alot more than not zero.

I'll bet they do. But again, how many people watch poker who have NEVER played poker? Board games, card games, crossword puzzles, sudoku, Rubik's cube, etc. all have their fans. And those fans, although limited, will probably still watch competitions.

I think you probably see the point. There is no comparing the viewership of sports versus board games like chess or checkers.

Fischer vs. Spassky was the biggest spectator event ever??

We've all come to expect some pretty "interesting" things from you but it almost looks like you sometimes get mad at yourself if you say something truthful.

Counting ONLY the individual contests and not team events the 1972 PGA tour had prize money amounts usually over 100k. A few were over 200k, The winner usually getting probably about 20 or so. I think Jack Nicklaus made about 320k that year playing golf.

I know it's easy to get sidetracked in these discussions. Someone may make a point then someone else says "but what about this other thing that's completely unrelated?"

Chess, and most other board games simply do not have the appeal, the viewership, the ratings, the money, the sponsors, the popularity, or the interest that sports do. The "chess is a sport" folks have become very silent when pressed on the issue about whether or not people who do NOT play will sit and watch an entire chess event. Because they know that just doesn't happen. It probably wouldn't happen with any other board game either.

But it happens very often with sports because, well, because they are sports. No doubt there have been big money chess events and a handful of spectators watching. But even the most enthusiastic chess fan will admit chess simply does not have the magnetism that sports do.

That question is really self-answering. It's because everyone knows who the sports athlete is. Professional chess players do not pose as athletes because almost nobody knows who they are.

I've never heard that one before. You do know what prestige means, right?

So if using chess as a prop for a NHL commercial indicate "prestige" then using a gecko for an insurance commercial also indicates prestige, right?

You do pose as a tennis player as demonstrated by your repeated references to playing tennis and sharing your tennis club logo. You seem to have forgotten your point long ago and are now just typing whatever comes in to your mind at that specific moment. You seem to think everyone else in the world thinks and acts the same as you but that is not the case. Thankfully.

The "a sport is only a sport if people watch it" argument sounds sketchy. Not many in the USA watch Rugby or Cricket, but they are still sports. What's the critical amount of fans required to get the title?

Basing what is considered a sport on needing a majority share of the population approving of it seems like a slippery slope.

being intelligent is not a sport.

Though the Oxford dictionary defines it as "an activity involving physical exertion and skill". So if we are going off of that definition, chess isn't a sport. Maybe we can petition the dictionaries to add an entry similar to e-sports but for board games. B-sports?

ppl are born intelligent. So no its not a sport.

how does that disapprove that intelligence is not a sport when its coded into your dna to be inherently intelligent?

except its coded into your dna to be inherently intelligent.... you are either intelligent or you're not. you can't gain intelligence. Maybe i am im stupid. im not good at chess so i must be stupid. So thanks stupid.

Curling

You are reading an abridged Oxford dictionary.