Is chess a SPORT?

You can make pocket pool competitive! 

Is cooking a sport?

"Historically, butterscotch was a hard candy made with unprocessed sugar. The suffix “scotch” means “to cut”." 

Well, there are cooking competitions, so I suppose it might be considered a sport by some.

Where did you find this definition for the suffix 'scotch'? I just tried GOogle and could not find it.

So if one is dying of a terminal illness they cannot win a chess tourney? Or maybe they aren't dying, but they have arterial sclerosis.

Drinking orange juice sitting down resting your head on your hands is not a sport. It is a mind game and an mental endurance test with a physical aspect. If you think it is a sport, you have never played a man's sport. How many football, basketball, soccer, or baseball players think chess, poker, the medical boards, and the bar exam are sports?

hahahaha good one

The bar exam is a competition. The SATs are a competition. Monopoly is a competition. Under your logic they must be sports.

Winning a girl is a competition. Are women just a sport to you guys? Don't answer. Be very careful.

Golf is the most difficult sport I have ever tried.

You hit a ball with a stick. Run after it. Find it. Hit it again. Repeat.

Maybe I should've narrowed it down to professional competition.  Idk, none of those listed really involve mental competition for the sake of sport.  But this gets into semantics, and I don't really care about that shit.  

To me, if I'm asked whether Magnus and Vishy were engaging in sport during their recent match, I would intuitively say yes, and that chess could therefore be considered a sport.  Regardless of what your definition of "sport" is.  I know that doesn't make it correct, but the International Olympic Committee agrees with me 

I agree that golf is boring to those unfamiliar with it. Those of us that know the game are well aware of the mental and physical nature of it.

I will submit that golf is the toughest of all sports. Gotta be in shape to play in tournaments. Every week. That means practice 'til sundown.

Playing in a friend's event? Cool! As with chess, if you're only there for fun, enjoy!

The mental side of golf is brutal. Anyone that has played competitive golf knows it.

So, no, golf is not the odd one out.

The most frustrating and rewarding experience in a single round.

Allow me to edit your description.

Golf is a game where there is no defense. The ball is sitting there. You have 14 clubs assigned to hit the ball the distance you wish. It's up to you to make it happen. The other difference is that one great shot in golf only equals one stroke. A hole in one will be remembered (and is cool as hell to have a "1" on a card!), but, what did you do the other 17 holes?

Considering that the word "sport" simply means "fun, amusment", yes, I'd say chess is a sport. The idea that sport must involve atheletic competition and/or physical exertion is moronic.

Google says:

Selective copypasta is neat.

For a more complete view of the word, its origins and various usages: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sport

First line:

From Old French desport, variant of deport (“fun, amusement”), from Latin deportāre, present active infinitive of deportō.

"fun" and "amusement" ARE NOT used to describe sports, but rather describes the French variant.

Boy, talk about being selective in your definition.

Right, because words completely lose meaning when they migrate to other areas and/or pronounciation and spelling change some.

In this case, yes.

If 'fun' and 'amusement' were still considered descriptions for the word 'sport', they would have carried over to modern dictionaries.

Chess is a sport and it should be in the Olympics by now.

Sorry, but you can't ignore the etymology, the foundation, of a word just because it doesn't match your narrow pre-conceived notions.