Is chess a sport? Ending the debate

It's definitely not a sport. it's a warped game

It is highly addicting, especially at the faster time controls. Clearly a sport.

 Have you no idea how hard an archer has to train?

Yes the faster you take addictive drugs, the more that becomes a sport. Same goes for pulling handles on slot machines.

It's always entertaining to  see the new and creative ways chess (or anything else) could become a sport. I have never seen addiction listed anywhere as any sort of requirement or even common trait of sports. 

Not a sport for me

As for the sport of speed coffee drinking, don't ask me about that. Do you know I grind it by hand and 400 turns on the coffee grinder handle in the morning is part of my daily fitness routine?

I have one of those grinders, too. It sits on the counter unused. Instead, I use the electric burr grinder. 

Adrenaline.

My oldest son climbs cliffs for the adrenaline rush. I play speed chess. We are both junkies, but his fitness level is better.

I have an expensive coffee machine with its own grinder and at the moment I make it in a jug. It makes a different kind of coffee. My daughter in canada was a competitive rock climber.

Here she is: she has no problem with being a bit famous
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I taught her to rock climb before she could walk. So she won't remember but something drew her into it.

I think my son learned in Boy Scouts. Scouting was the only time I've done rock climbing. Did it at Philmont.

I've watched my son and taken a lot of photos. He teaches the sport (or did before COVID), but I don't know that he competes.

I said she won't remember because I seem to be the only one with a memory that goes back to very young .... 6 months old. I've only met two or three others in my life.

Henry James, the famous writer, write about a vivid memory he had of being in his stroller as a baby. I remember discussing this claim in a graduate seminar in literature (we were reading A Portrait of a Lady, which I found rather dull). Skepticism of the claim was the reigning idea in our discussion.

My earliest detailed memory dates from the Christmas holiday when I was five, although I faintly recall a year or two before when I was enamored with the girl next door who was so grown up that she attended kindergarten (or maybe preschool). The Christmas memory, however, is vivid and detailed. Moreover, my parents have confirmed that matters took place as I describe them.

So, yes, a clear memory from such an age is a rare gift.

That does not surprise me. My earliest memory was from very young. It was looking at a mobile above my crib. For 20 years or more it was also very vivid, now it has faded over time but I still remember it as not a big deal. It has never seemed unusual.  I have always wondered if there was some other reason, something that happened that was associated with that particular moment. But my mother has never said there was, it was just an ordinary ornament hanging over an ordinary crib. Much later, when I was about 3, I was walking barefoot outside the house and stepped on some cut glass. I certainly remember that, and still have the scar to prove it. 

Two things I have always wondered about those early memories, why I remember a few select things from early on, but I don't remember most of the things where pictures were taken. And also just how far back can someone remember. I have heard of people remembering distinct sounds from inside the womb, but I just have never researched it. 

Name me a few other sports if you can where you only use ya brain.  All the sport I can think of require the use of moving the body about. Hand ,eye coordination & things in sports. As I have said before, you wouldn't see people playing chess at a schools sports day , because it's completely on the other end of the spectrum. In my opinion

I mean, not a physical one, like football, basketball etc. But you are training your mind. And yeah it should be considered as a sport. Skateboard and shooting is in Olympic games, why not chess one day

YEET 

Chess is awesome but its not a sport.

 
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noun: sport; plural noun: sports
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an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.