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Is chess a sport? Ending the debate

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MarioParty4
May 18, 2023
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#1821

Chess is sport.

It is probably the best sport, because it has the least violence.

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Optimissed
May 18, 2023
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#1822
zborg wrote:

At the end of a chess tourney, (typically) you are thoroughly physically exhausted. What's not "sporting" about that (regularly experienced) outcome? That physical experience obtains, regardless of the rhetorical embellishments that some (overactive) pin-heads attach to "their interpretation" of the the word "sport," in any and all dictionaries bandied about this almost 2K posted thread.

How's that for a short, readable summary of this nutty-buddy thread? Ha!

Pretty bad.

If you didn't sleep for a week, you'd be even more exhausted.

Argument over. I just won it. happy.png

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Petra
May 18, 2023
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#1823

A game based on systematic and logical patterns. Maybe a sport made for our brains. But I prefer the word "game".

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Optimissed
May 18, 2023
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#1824

Anyway, I can remember playing football after winning a three day chess tournament, when I was in my 40s. I could play football for two and a half hours when I was 45. Just depends on your fitness level, whether you're "physically exhausted" after a "tourney".

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BigKingBud
May 18, 2023
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#1825

Dear God, please help mankind...

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Drummer_GD_Elijah
Mar 9, 2024
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#1826

Bump

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Optimissed
Mar 10, 2024
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#1827
DoctorKraken42 wrote:

There are many arguments for why chess is a sport, including:

The International Olympic Comittee, quite possibly the most 'official' sports authority in the world, considers it so.

It bears almost all the characteristics of games that are definitely sports, such as basketball, baseball etc. Physicality is the ONLY thing missing.

And even that idea can be challenged, becuase tournament chess clearly requieres a lot of stamina.

Meanwhile, the ONLY argument I've ever heard from the naysayers of the idea that chess is a sport is "But it's not physical (enough)!"

The thing that neither side realizes is that THERE IS MORE THAN ONE DEFINITION OF THE WORD 'SPORT'. There is no 'official' or 'objective' definition. Many defintions include chess, while others do not. None of the definitions are 'more correct' than the others.

The two different sides don't really disagree on anything chess related, only on the definition of a word. So, I present to you, the objective truth on the matter: it depends on what definition of 'sport' you go by, and they're all equally correct. By the definition I go by, chess is a sport. But ultimately, the debate doesn't even matter. Because there IS NO ANSWER. Neither side is 'right'. And a debate of the merits of different definitions would be absurd and almost impossible to reasonably conduct.

Argument over. Forever.

drivel.

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Ziryab
Mar 10, 2024
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#1828
Drummer_GD_Elijah wrote:

Bump

Foolish move.

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Drummer_GD_Elijah
Mar 10, 2024
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#1829
Ziryab wrote:
Drummer_GD_Elijah wrote:

Bump

Foolish move.

And why do you say that? Although, I guess there is some validity to your statement...

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Optimissed
Mar 10, 2024
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#1830

Because it goes round and round and round. Is anyone truly interested?

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Drummer_GD_Elijah
Mar 10, 2024
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#1831
Optimissed wrote:

Because it goes round and round and round. Is anyone truly interested?

Didn't ask you. You're not the person I asked. And is anyone truly interested in what?

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Ziryab
Mar 10, 2024
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#1832
Drummer_GD_Elijah wrote:
Optimissed wrote:

Because it goes round and round and round. Is anyone truly interested?

Didn't ask you. You're not the person I asked. And is anyone truly interested in what?

@Optimissed is correct. This debate, which exists in several threads, always has the same declarations on the respective sides and very little argument. What argument does exist also becomes repetitive as the same posters offer the same points in every thread.

In other words, round and round.

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bdatgamlolplzhlpmeee
Mar 10, 2024
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#1833
If fortnight is a sport then so is chess
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Ziryab
Mar 10, 2024
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#1834
bdatgamlolplzhlpmeee wrote:
If fortnight is a sport then so is chess

What is Fortnight?

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Petra
Mar 10, 2024
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#1835

Chess is a game based on systematic and logical patterns. Maybe a sport made for our brains. But I prefer the word "game". And the Olympic Games are called games, so I suppose "games" cover it all.

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Ziryab
Mar 11, 2024
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#1836

Basketball is a game. Golf is a walk in the park, or a short drive in an electric vehicle. Rugby is a sport.

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mpaetz
Mar 11, 2024
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#1837

In the USSR chess came under the purview of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. Chess certainly prospered there as a sport.

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Optimissed
Mar 11, 2024
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#1838
Drummer_GD_Elijah wrote:
Optimissed wrote:

Because it goes round and round and round. Is anyone truly interested?

Didn't ask you. You're not the person I asked. And is anyone truly interested in what?

But I answered and you are the person I answered sir.

Interested in your question, I suppose.

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Optimissed
Mar 11, 2024
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#1839
mpaetz wrote:

In the USSR chess came under the purview of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. Chess certainly prospered there as a sport.

And the USSR is really prospering now ... proof they get everything right!!

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mpaetz
Mar 11, 2024
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#1840

The former Soviet Republics do still have the greatest number of GMs.