Is chess a sport?

I do NOT, I think its more like a form of art, like when I see a beautiful game chess, it feels more like hearing a symphony. Of course some sports are artistic as well, but not the intellectual extent of chess. I feel like the chess players are the composers and each move is a note, making a perfect game of chess where there's harmony seem like a beautiful symphony.

Hehe, yes but it doesn't have to be all or nothing, if you replace physical with mental and remove the team bit you can relate it to chess.

@Bulgarian:

Interesting question, well it might give a clearer defenintion of what chess is, or what can be defined as a sport. This act of thinking and argueing makes a difference in your life, if done regularly. IT can for instance sharpen your mind 

I can agree that it seems like a trivial question but it doesnt have to be litteraly about the question

I heard once that there was an effort being made to include chess in the Olympics...thus pro players would be subject to drug tests as part of the effort to gain Olympic status.  Personally I thought it was the dumbest thing I ever heard of.  Chess is wonderful, but it is not in any way, shape, or form an Olympic Sport.  (Though some of the so-called sports in the Olympics has to make you wonder.)

When play it it is a sport, when i analyze it, it is a science and when i watch it it is hopefully an art

Maybe chess used to be a sport, back when it was played by real men, who smoked and drank and sometimes abused morphine, nowadays it's a bunch of flowery nancy boys studying opening theory terrified of gambiting a pawn or two.  No thank you ma'am!  Yeah, it was sporting but it sure ain't no more.

So sports with minimal physical exertion like pool and croquet aren't sports?

Very nicely put, Nilshero :)

Games.

Chess can be a sport if you use very, very heavy pieces. Or an extremely large board... say, a couple of hundred meters across.

Could also be quiet sexy if oiled up body-builders had to move the very heavy pieces.

Chess is probably an art, it's probably very similar to being a musician actually, but that's just my third eye talking.

Has it been a month already?

Chess is a sport much like poker. Why is poker televised on a sports channel if poker was not a sport...

lol

"Sport" is defined culturally. In eastern European nations, chess is treated as a sport. It is covered in the sports section of the news, and chess players are called "sportsmen". 

In the United States, chess is not really considered a sport. 

There's no single correct answer to the question of whether chess is a sport. It depends entirely on the culture that defines the word.

So, the correct answer is "sport"?

The same reason advertisements are televised on a sports channel even though they're not sports.  Because they target the same audience and bring in revenue.

So where do you draw the line?
If John Daly, a fat man that constantly drinks and smokes while he plays golf (-not that I'm against him) can make it into the top 50, or 70 year olds can still play, does that mean golf is simply a "game" and not a sport?
All of the above mentioned sports are, at elite levels, taxing either on the body or the mind. I suppose a counter argument would be that playing instruments is not considered a sport, and I know damn well after playing piano for 20 years that it can be physically demanding and take a toll on you mentally- but it comes down more to a cultural understanding than any single opinion. 

When I play a serious OTB chess game my heart rate is definetly pretty high.

I am also exhausted after the end of a long game.