Is chess a sport? Ending the debate

tipsi my point is that chess is not a sport face facts do not go with the petty ideas of using your hand in PE class or gym in school do they do chess NO 

My response to Blockhead Bud.

I don’t want to waste any more time with this pig ignorant individual. By the same token I don’t see why the mentally defective town drunk should be continually prominent on this thread. So once posted, I will occasionally copy and paste this to caution newcomers of this truly obnoxious individual. This I take on as a service to the chess.com community.

He and many others argue that sport needs a physical component separate from the brain to be called ‘sport’. I am not unsympathetic to this viewpoint. However I believe a significant minority, including myself argue that chess is within our definition of sport. Numerous dictionaries include definitions of sport that don’t include vigorous movement. Blockhead Bud will not accept that there are certain words in English usage that can mean different things to different people.

He continually misrepresents others points of view and accuses others of name calling while continually dishing it out himself. His contention that cerebral pursuits aren’t covered by dictionary definitions is a lie, and he knows it. At first, I admired his resoluteness, but after a while I realised I was dealing with a pig ignorant liar who is immune to reason.

Of course chess is physical. Staying alive is physical, so any human activity by anyone alive counts as having a physical component to it. Chess cannot be a sport (which has been pointed out many times) because it's the excellence of the physical part that determines the success of the activity. So for chess to be a sport, the physical part (moving the pieces, blinking your eyes, scratching your head, hitting the clock, etc) would be the part someone trains in to excel at the activity. So speed chess probably is a sport because it's the physical part that largely determines who wins. For regular chess, the physical part plays no part in the success of the activity. So the "only argument" you see for chess not being a sport is in fact the physical part. The reason is because THAT is the part that specifically prevents it from being a sport.

It would be like someone saying the ONLY reason people claim a tricycle isn't a bicycle is because a tricycle has three wheels. Sure its only one reason, but it happens to be the only reason that matters.

Wow!  That's a lot of countries!!  Over 100 countries recognize and thus define Chess as a sport!  I had no idea it was that many.  That's an impressive stat.

My response to Blockhead Bud.

I don’t want to waste any more time with this pig ignorant individual. By the same token I don’t see why the mentally defective town drunk should be continually prominent on this thread. So once posted, I will occasionally copy and paste this to caution newcomers of this truly obnoxious individual. This I take on as a service to the chess.com community.

He and many others argue that sport needs a physical component separate from the brain to be called ‘sport’. I am not unsympathetic to this viewpoint. However I believe a significant minority, including myself argue that chess is within our definition of sport. Numerous dictionaries include definitions of sport that don’t include vigorous movement. Blockhead Bud will not accept that there are certain words in English usage that can mean different things to different people.

He continually misrepresents others points of view and accuses others of name calling while continually dishing it out himself. His contention that cerebral pursuits aren’t covered by dictionary definitions is a lie, and he knows it. At first, I admired his resoluteness, but after a while I realised I was dealing with a pig ignorant liar who is immune to reason.

You have to wonder at the motive of those who want to deny Chess it's status as a sport. I suspect they're the same folk trying to get Baseball into the Olympics and they don't like the competition.

RIP @chess_is_AIDS

Ikr!

Since when do "facts" stop boneheads from cutting and pasting luxurious BS into internet threads?  Hardly ever.

Chess has been recognized as part art, part sport, and part intellectual game / science for some time now.  But most people in this thread haven't received that memo.

And if you want to pay for this thought (not recommended by me ) here's one of many links available --

https://www.chessbazaar.com/blog/chess-art-science-sport-quote-brief/

If chess is a sport, then so is the board game Monopoly...  

It really is as simple as that...

Taking out the trash is a sport. Exams are a sport. 

Working is a sport. Going for a walk is a sport. Breating is a sport.

Everything is a sport. EVERYTHING!

If chess is a sport (an act of non physical training and performance) then that would create a whole new sport also. The sport of not playing chess.

I completely agree. Being a couch potatoe is a sport, too.

you know what lets comprimise ches is a spoard game ( spord) half board game half sport therefore it can be considered a sport but also conidered a board game 

well, how would you call something where you play for money in competitions? gambling? a leisure activity?

its not an athletic sport but it has most,maybe all, terms to be considered a sport

Chess is not a sport and a sport. 

Chess is not a sport because breathing is a sport.

Perhaps not letting myself be trolled is a sport?  I mean I do notice that when I am trolled by a certain bratty snooty maniac, when I fight off the need to trigger I CERTAINLY  "...observe there is a physical element of my being affecting my ability to think..."

Brilliant!