Is chess a sport?

yes

NO! Chess is a mind game and should be in the mind game Olympics along with other similar games. Sports make a physical demand on the body and require physical fitness, skill and agility .. although you wouldn't believe that definition when you see some of the "sports" that have kept squash out of the Olympics recently!!

oh

sure

Yes, but a mind sport.  It doesn't fit the definition of sport without qualification.

it is a sport

Chess is intellectual gymnastics. - Wilhelm Steinitz.

Chess=Type Of Gymnastics.

Gymnastics=Sports,

So chess is a sport.

sport /spôrt/ noun 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. So NO it is not a sport. There is no physical skill required. A blind or quadriplegic person could be just as good as anyone else at chess. End this trolling madness (even tho I added to it)

You are right, but that doesn't stop the people who are allergic to dictionaries from dreaming up ways to justify nonsense. Chess is a sport in the same way a circle is a square.

Yas. It is a mental sport

 Absurd.

Chess is widely viewed as a sport in many parts of the world. But most people think of sports as involving competition where the emphasis is on physical agility and/or strength. Hence, the dictionary definition that dull plodders will turn to must be stretched a bit in order to accommodate more flexible usage.

Happily, the etymology of sport helps the word stretch in this manner. However, it runs the risk of allowing all sorts of amusements, even tiddlywinks.

What we need are better lexicographers.

You understand, of course, that "research" means a kind of inquiry more extensive than looking in a dictionary?

Doing so will lead you inevitably to the recognition that chess is a sport, despite the failure of lexicographers to account how the term is often used.