Is chess a sport? Ending the debate

Spectators in chess may also drink beer, most decide not to because they like their brain cells. 

Cheerleaders define a sport? So It is only a sport if you make a commercial show of it so that many people buy tickets to watch it? What does that have to do with sports? So you do not like the sport but the halftime show that is put up for consumers?

Chess players also sweat and their heartrate rises as their sympathicus gets stimulated by adrenaline. As for blood... Interesting point, why should they bleed? Oh wait: they do sometimes. Why is that important, though?

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Your manchild-in-chief is way more insane than Kim Jong Un could ever be. When the North Korean dictator looks more sane than the "president" of the United States something must have gone wrong. 

I could list a lot of things but you seem to like Trump and those people I conversed with were blinded by his propaganda so telling you would have no point. Critical thinking is lacked by those who follow him just like with this sharlatan you defend in other threads.

Please more arguments to destroy if you don't mind.

Do you really think drinking beer and blood is what defines a sport? Take golf, for instance. There are no cheerleaders whatsoever, no pain, no team colors, and yet it is still a sport. Plus, chess is watched all the time, probably more than golf. It may not be on cable TV, but that isn't really what makes up a sport. I will say it once again. Chess is a mental sport, not a physical sport. Honestly, all of the reasons you listed above are unrealistic and just plain bad. If you wated to list reasons, at least list good ones. Yikes.

You probably could have chosen a much better example than golf. Golf does in fact have pain. Tiger Woods won the US Open wincing in pain from literally a broken leg. As for team colors, every time the US team plays in an international competition team colors are worn, not to mention of course the countless times team colors are worn for lesser events like college competitions. Chess is certainly not watched more than golf. Will you be watching a chess tournament on network TV this weekend? Almost every weekend there is a golf competition aired, if not from the US, then from an international tournament. And for many people the single most important reason to play golf, the beer. Beer and alcohol sales are what make many venues profitable. Chess cannot be compared to golf because golf satisfies so many requirements of sport, while chess satisfies almost none. Speed chess could be considered a sport because of the physical requirement to play, you have to be fast and agile. But overall chess cannot be a sport because there are no physical requirements. Stephen Hawking can play chess, so it's not a sport. A "mind sport" is not a sport. It's a game, like bridge or poker or crossword solving, etc. There is  reason they came up with the two different terms. They define different activities. Some games can be sports and some sports can be games. Chess just isn't one that can be both.

If i tripped while playing golf, that doesn't mean that golf has pain. You could argue that chess has pain because you could get arthritis in you wrist and fingers. Your example was much worse than mine. Stephen hawking can also play basketball, he just might not be good. And finally, a mind sport is definitely a sport. It would be called a mind game if it weren't. physical requirement does not define a sport.

Look guys, it's the sports aisle!

Look, guys, it's the board games category https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess

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http://londonchessconference.com/a-question-of-sport/ 

If you think that chess is not a sport, please click this link.

Tiger didn't trip while playing golf. His broken leg was a stress fracture from hitting the ball too hard. Not to mention a very common ailment among golfers, bad backs. From too much swing torque. Sure you could argue that chess players experience pain because they could get arthritis in their fingers, if you wanted to get belly laughed at. Not many people like being laughed at that hard, which is probably why no one has ever made the argument that chess players experience pain from developing arthritis from playing chess.

And actually physical requirement DOES define sport. From Dictionary.com...

"noun

1. an athletic activity, requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. "

Kind of ironic that your example is actually listed as an example of a sport. When do you think you will EVER see chess listed as an example of a sport in any dictionary?

People who play sports can drink beer, but they shouldn't. Similarly, chess players shouldn't. Drinking beer can lead to increased heartbeat, upset stomach, vomiting, sweating, and a headache. That has horrible effects on your chess play. I remember a few years ago playing in a 6-game tournament. I think I started the first day with 2/3 drawing with two higher rated players, getting my revenge against one who beat me before, but I threw up many times the second day and got only 1/3.

sure, if you drink enough those things will happen.

however, professional golf tours do not allow drinking during tournaments because it relaxes their nerves. ever been up close to any big tournament? some players hands are shaking as they tee it up on the first hole. and they're pros!

End of Debate

Does anyone think Deadpool should have answered this question in the trailer for his movie?

His answer would be more interesting than this thread.

Table tennis requires little physical exertion. In that case, you could also say that chess requires exertion to move the piece and hit the clock and notate it quickly when in time pressure. Is table tennis a sport? Yes.

Pressing the clock and moving pieces is really exhausting -> sport

A sport is 'honed' in the physical body, chess is honed only in the mind...

But the pieces are so heavy!

Chess is not a sport, not by definition.  Chess has the competitive part in droves, but there is no physical activity to be honed.

Here(below) Carlson plays at least 3 games of chess without moving anything, chess is played in the mind, not the body.  Sports are played with the body(skeletal, muscles, joints).

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