Is chess a sport?
Please allow me to lay this debate to rest finally. Chess is a sport, and I can prove it.
There is a society of people known as the Greeks they were/are philosophers. One of their better-known members can be quoted as having stated, "Man, Is the measurer of all things." Before humankind, there was no beginning, and there was no end. It was saved for a divined entity. However, along came man and as the plack on the wall of the Cambridge University unequivocally states, "It becomes necessary for a scientist to speak in a universal language."That in turn, gives us wide latitude in determining the beginning and the end. And so goes the definining moment for systems of all sorts.
A sport never existed until such beginning was marked. This is true of all games. A sport does not get its start from thin air. It cannot exist contingent upon an imaginary line that is crossed when a certain amount of physical activity is exerted. That goes for sports like fishing, hunting, poker where very little physical wherewith all is required.
A sport becomes a sport when any given activity has attention paid to it coupled with the authors claim that one or a group of participates state they are better than the other. A sport makes a requisite competition.
Any activity that is observed by one or more people who 1) claim I/we can do it better 2) an audience then agrees and adopts rules that become equalizers for fair competition.
End of story.
In sum, it goes as follows; 1) activity 2) audience 3) winner.
So debate too is a sport I claim to have won!
Goodbye
Timothy Scott Puente
