Is chess a sport?

<<The preponderance of the verdict on whether the sport of chess should remain forever a game is again answered when sponsors of an event refer its audience to the event in advertising. “ Watch a live chess match, not a live chess game.”>>

A match is a set of games, one team against the other. I'm sure there are people who, for whatever reason, want it to be a sport. When two people play chess, they are matched against one-another. All this reliance on word-manipulation displays the weakness of the case.

Semantics.

Chess was part of the Olympics once but I wouldn't count it as a sport

0/100 for optimissed. Define the word sport. Practically speaking, Chess is considered to be a sport along with football, baseball etc. The definition of the word sport varies between sources. Naive people think that something can be a sport only if there is extensive physical activity involved. As decided by the Olympics committee and SportsAccord Chess is considered to be a sport in the real world may be not according to one or two dictionaries. 

"Is considered to be" by the blind wombat-birds of Lapiz Centauri? I challenge you to make a logically convincing argument for the classification of chess as a sport. An argument which states that "some people consider it such" is not convincing to those who don't consider it such. I have noted that you have already deployed the redoubtable "ad hominem" argument against others. I agree it's very effective but is it logically convincing? "As decided by an Olympics Committee"!!! That isn't very convincing either, when one remembers that they WANT it to be considered a sport. So ignore everything and what other people claim to believe and just try to convince me by means of logical argumentation.

Just as a point of interest, I suppose that those who think it's a sport also think that snooker's a sport?

I think that those who want chess to be a sport are concentrating on the mental effort and training that has to be applied to chess. That would make Contract Bridge a sport too .... a sport pursued by old ladies of the blue rinse type but nevertheless a sport. Contract Bridge is a difficult game so it must be a sport too. So Bridge is a sport. Right. Now, there's a board game called Risk! that, it so happened, I was very good at back in the day. Obviously that's a sport too. Right.

Some people have competitions, such as seeing how many hard-boiled eggs they can consume in a given time, such as two minutes. The winner gets a prize .... a hard-boiled egg. Obviously, that takes a lot of concentration and training to do well at. So that's a sport. I think I'm getting the hang of it now. All of a sudden, I understand that anything we want to be called "sport" is a sport, and that's the nature of sport, to give everyone a sporting chance. But all the same, something's niggling me and so I'm waiting for the logically deductive argument that will finally convince me.

And yet, somehow, I have a niggling suspicion, against my natural instincts and, indeed, against my better judgement, that there hasn't been a proper argument that nails chess as a sport, in all this waffle.

@Optimissed

Time will tell; however, I certainly hope for the sake of any potential future fanfare. As a result, the sports world is not placed on hold as you decide?

Aloha

i hope they put it alongside the discussions about breakdancing and rhythmic gymnastics being "sports". 

as far as your demeaning "keep it real" comment, it is more than fair to ask if those other activities are sporting to the dunderheads that think chess is sport.

Every time someone comes up with a common sense reason why chess can't be a sport, someone else comes up with an even better one. You are right, all sports need tools of some sort to play them. Chess does not require that. I think the reason all sports need tools is because all sports are physical skill events. So, since no physical skill is needed for chess, no tools would be needed either. 

I cant think of a single sport that doesn't require tools of some kind. Clubs and balls are the most obvious, but even simple sports like running and swimming require the use of arms and legs.

I'm still liking the "if you cant lose an eye, it's not a sport" reason though.

and YOU can argue all you want that "it's already been proven". 

actually, if you think that, you should not participate in this topic any more.

I was hoping for an actual reason why he thought those would NOT be sports. Since I listed things that fell within their guidelines. Competitive, has rules, organized. So I honestly dont see why those wouldn't be sports, according to their definition.

you f*#kers that keep arguing that chess is sport have nothing to stand on but your own wild misgivings about wishing to be considered athletic because you play the "sport" of chess. sheesh, what a bunch of losers. 

except.....how many of you engaged in some type of physical fitness routine for otb tournaments? i will hazard a guess that as many as 10% of posters have (of course, i think the number is much lower). so, what about the other 90% (+) that play chess? am i playing a sport with my online games here?

hell, even those that play otb regularly, do you have a fitness routine for your games?

it should also be noted how few titled players have posted in the many topics on this subject where hacks think they are athletes. 

you bums should see yourselves-"i know it's true!"

Absolutely right.

Chess is a sport in fact it is an amazing mental sport

Heaven help us. All the propaganda and crapola that's been written by people who do not understand the concept of metaphor?

The idea that chess is a sport is a metaphor, which is not literally true. They are deceived into thinking that a metaphor is literally true. What more is there to say?

Take care of your panty, it might come off.