As a chess fan, from my view I think it is!
IS CHESS A SPORT?????????
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Aug 26, 2020
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#64
lfPatriotGames wrote:
igotmange wrote:
why should i ?
because you have decided this is your thread now ?
that is pure nasty trolling, deliberately avoiding the truth of the situation and harassing others.
Because you seem very concerned about alternative definitions of words. That's why. If you want to use different definitions, start your own thread. This is not my thread, nor do I get to make up definitions of words. If you feel harassed, again, start your own thread and keep me out.
The truth is very clear, the title of this topic is present tense. NOT past tense. If you want to explore if chess (or watching grass grow or competitive blinking) used to be sports, do it. Presently, chess is not a sport. Based on the definition of words that I have no control over. I didn't write the dictionary.
Aug 26, 2020
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#65
sports by their nature are mainly physical since it’s more natural and healthy for the human body, but sports don’t have to be physical if you go back far enough to the original true meaning. that is not going to be easy for those completely set in their ways however.
YES IT IS
bob_and_noob wrote:
YES IT IS
but its not
ahahahaha the owner gets it
SujanShadrak wrote:
ahahahaha the owner gets it
that is me
It is a sport. There have been test on professional players who have lost 2000 or something crazy calories by playing just one tournament game.
Aug 26, 2020
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#72
Ripley_Osbourne написал:
Chess is not a sport. Chess competition is.
No! Chess is!!
Mako_Cat wrote:
It is a sport. There have been test on professional players who have lost 2000 or something crazy calories by playing just one tournament game.
link plz
Ripley_Osbourne wrote:
SujanShadrak a écrit :
Mako_Cat wrote:
It is a sport. There have been test on professional players who have lost 2000 or something crazy calories by playing just one tournament game.
link plz
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Yes, a mental sport. From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport#Etymology
Etymology
The word "sport" comes from the Old French desport meaning "leisure", with the oldest definition in English from around 1300 being "anything humans find amusing or entertaining".[8]
Other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling; hunting; and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise.[9] Roget's defines the noun sport as an "activity engaged in for relaxation and amusement" with synonyms including diversion and recreation.[10]
Nomenclature
The singular term "sport" is used in most English dialects to describe the overall concept (e.g. "children taking part in sport"), with "sports" used to describe multiple activities (e.g. "football and rugby are the most popular sports in England"). American English uses "sports" for both terms.
Aug 26, 2020
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#78
Sport comes from Support.
a lot of dudes and dudesses support chess.
HasanElias wrote:
Yes, a mental sport. From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport#Etymology
Etymology
The word "sport" comes from the Old French desport meaning "leisure", with the oldest definition in English from around 1300 being "anything humans find amusing or entertaining".[8]
Other meanings include gambling and events staged for the purpose of gambling; hunting; and games and diversions, including ones that require exercise.[9] Roget's defines the noun sport as an "activity engaged in for relaxation and amusement" with synonyms including diversion and recreation.[10]
NomenclatureThe singular term "sport" is used in most English dialects to describe the overall concept (e.g. "children taking part in sport"), with "sports" used to describe multiple activities (e.g. "football and rugby are the most popular sports in England"). American English uses "sports" for both terms.
The first two paragraphs of the link you provided sum it up very well. Hopefully that helps those who are still confused.
TumpaiTubo wrote:
Patriot: How do you completely gloss over this: “The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports: bridge, chess, draughts (checkers), Go and xiangqi,[4][5] and limits the number of mind games which can be admitted as sports.[1]”
I didn't gloss over it. In fact I said the first two paragraphs sum it up very well. What you posted is in the first two paragraphs. The organization mentioned includes activities that are not in the Olympics. Sport wannabes I suppose. Chess is a mind game, as stated.
Just think about it logically. If a mind game is a sport, what is NOT a sport? Literally all human activities would be sports. If you go by the criteria mentioned here, it's impossible to name a single human activity that's not a sport. I doubt, even by the original definition of sport, that it was intended to include every and all human activities.
Oh god not this again