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

long_quach gets the Oscar for an outstanding performance in this sitcom.

Even though he hasn't made any good arguments, I suppose he must get the award.

While you are looking up the definition of synonymous, you now have to also look up the definition of colloquial.

Synonymous in the "colloquial" sense in NO way implies or refers to horse racing and gambling being the same. That is not the familiar or common use of those words. When thinking about or talking about gambling people do NOT automatically think of horse racing. That is not the normal or familiar association.

That would be like saying chess IS gambling. They are synonymous, because in your "colloquial" sense people have been known to gamble at chess.

I think you are very, very much in need of a dictionary. Abridged, unabridged, anything actually..

I expect the poor chap meant "implicit" rather than "colloquial".

There's a lot of it about.

Gets the award for the most talking (including to himself) in the forum!

For some reason I get the feeling he talks this way quite often. He might be at the market, feeling the ripeness of melons and start talking to himself about melons being a martial fruit, and their importance in the chess community. That's also about the time people start slowly backing away from him, letting him carry on the deep conversation all by himself.

If they backed away more quickly, they would be able to pretend that there was another reason for them to do that. But maybe not if everyone backed away quickly at the same time.

Oh, do you think so? You know, it would never occur to me that chess might be considered (by others) to be a sport, if it weren't for all the noise about it.

literaly look up the definition of a sport and show people chess meets all the requirments a sport is defined as a game played competitively and professionally with a large skill gab between the pros and newbies

So who cares, then?

Silly.

He did the exact same thing in a forum that was called something like "What if aliens played chess" or something like that. Ranted on for about 5-6 days and then left. Seems to be more active here though.
He seems to like branching off the original topic with a semi-relevant topic, then branch off from that one to a semi-relavent topic regarding the semi-relavent topic, so on and so forth. Pretty sure at one point he said "I have no life." in this forum, so I mean maybe he enjoys spewing information at high velocities.

Optimissed is probably the GOAT of debate.
don’t try to beat him in an argument, he has slain everyone!

I am predictable. If you try to use words like synonymous and colloquial without understanding what they mean, yes, I will probably point that out.

Your point of view is pretty simple, you want things to be a certain way, even if they aren't. You believe chess is a sport, you believe gambling is horse racing, you believe a sport must be martial to be a sport. You have all sorts of interesting beliefs. Just because I understand your point of view doesn't mean I agree with it.

You are under the assumption, for some reason, that if someone doesn't agree with you then they are not seeing things from your point of view. That's not how rational thinking works.

That's hilarious and a great idea for a t-shirt.

The International Olympic Committee classify chess as a sport so take it up with them.

It's true. The problem is that it's often so quick, they don't know they're dead.

So the dead keep on arguing and then tell everyone how they won.

We are not discussing it with them.

you get honorable mention for that one as well!