is chess a sport?

Look, let me put it this way. 

in the olympics, activities like track and field, long jump, shot put, all require great physical exertion, but ALL of them ALSO, require physical skill. All of these sports athletes spend their entire lives learning the sport and train like hell for 4 years so that they can perform at the highest level.

Compare that with chess, where literally an old 50 year old man with a beer gut bigger than multiple massive watermelons combined, can sit in a chair, and move pieces around with his arm. 

If you don't want to use chess as an example, then use darts. An old man/woman can do it, while being completely unfit. This is not sport, this is a game. 

The definition states "And", not "or", it requires both Physical exertion AND, skill, as requirements for an activity to be deemed a sport. It's obvious from the definition this doesn't mean "a small amount of a certain one and a large amount of the other". 

In every single sport you can think of, Both physical skill and exertion are present in very large degrees. 

But if you can list a single sport where not both are completely present then I'd like to hear about it.

Do you know the answer?

It's a fluid concept definitions change over time poker is broadcast on espn I still think it's a game but snooker is def a sport.

You sound like you need a game of boxing chess let off some steam.

Yes

I agree that chess is indeed a game 

I think it is due to sports being fun, which is the same as chess there both fun so I consider chess as a sport.

Some people think that throwing rocks over an overpass is fun too.

So, your point is blank, sport is anything that exercises your brain.

Additionally, the International Olympic Committee considers chess to be a sport.

Exercising your brain and having fun don't mean the same thing. The SAT exercises your brain, but I doubt many people find it fun. What is your definition of sports? Please be specific.

Something that exercises your body and something that blows off steam, moves your heart. It is pretty obvious that you never went to school.

See I proved my point and shut you up

"moves your heart" -- are we still talking about chess?

The definition of sports that you supplied does not apply to chess. Chess does not exercise your body-- at most, it uses your brain and hands; however, that's not enough to say chess exercises the body. Most people don't play chess to blow off steam. If anything, playing chess when you're tired or stressed out will end up with you losing your games and rage quitting. By "moves your heart," I assume you mean physically rather than emotionally. Chess does not move your heart unless you consider anxiety. But with that consideration, you might as well say that haunted houses are a sport.

thats not sport. 

depends on your definition of sport.

the dictionary definition is "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment," which chess doesn't fit into

I say we take sides and then team brawl to the death. Last left standing wins.

due to the physical exertion part (unless you count magnus raging when he loses)

no it doesn't "depend" on your definition.

There is an actual definition, an activity that involves physical exertion and skill.

It's hilarious how thousands of years ago sport was considered activities like gladiators, and now a days we put chess in the sport category.