Is chess a SPORT?

No thanks. FIDE is corrupt enough itself. I'd hate to see another corrupt organization muddying the waters even more.

As an English teacher and one who loves words and their histories, I really doubt my 'notions' can be considered narrow and pre-conceived.

In this case, you are refering to the French word 'desport' which, as it said at the Wiki article YOU posted, is a variant of the world 'deport',which means 'fun and amusing'. This means that it may share some similarities with the root or parent word, but not all of them.

For example, the word gynmastics is derived from the Greek word gymnos, which means naked or to train nude. However, for better or worse, gymnastics does not involve nudity.

But modern gymnastics does involve training does it not? Thus the etymological base for the word is still present. For an English teacher it amases me that you do not get this. Then again I've had English teachers who have said "warsh" instead of "wash", so maybe it shouldn't amaze me.

You really shouldn't medle in topics you clearly have no education or knowledge of.

By the way, this is called a dialet variant and has absolutely nothing to do with ones ability to teach English. 

You're an American. Go spend a few years in England and you will get tired of anal retentive nitpickers talking about your usage of verbs as nouns, agreement verbs and general pronunciation that 'warsh' won't seem so bad.

kleelof wrote:

Darth_Algar wrote:

But modern gymnastics does involve training does it not? Thus the etymological base for the word is still present. For an English teacher it amases me that you do not get this. Then again I've had English teachers who have said "warsh" instead of "wash", so maybe it shouldn't amaze me.

You really shouldn't medle in topics you clearly have no education or knowledge of.

Seconded.

Chess is a competitve game, you never hear poker players go on and on saying that poker is a sport.

Baseball and football are nothing more than competitave games, yet no one would argue that they are not sport.

richb8888 wrote:

Chess is a competitve game, you never hear poker players go on and on saying that poker is a sport.

There is a huge difference between chess and poker. Poker is a game of chance and luck, chess is pure skill.

Of course. Because their friends only care about if they are in or out.

I'd say she must be a VERY nice girl then.

As a former semi-professional poker player, I can tell you a couple of things. Generally speaking, poker players are less elitest compare to chess players (unless the poker player becomes famously rich at a young age).

Poker is a game of skill, with elements of chance and luck.

Chess is a game of skill, with elements of chance and luck.

More luck is involved in poker; however, both GAMES (not sports) require incredible amounts of skill and knowledge to play at very high levels.

Chicken_Monster wrote:

MuhammadAreez10 wrote:

richb8888 wrote:

Chess is a competitve game, you never hear poker players go on and on saying that poker is a sport.

There is a huge difference between chess and poker. Poker is a game of chance and luck, chess is pure skill.

As a former semi-professional poker player, I can tell you a couple of things. Generally speaking, poker players are less elitest compare to chess players (unless the poker player becomes famously rich at a young age).

Poker is a game of skill, with elements of chance and luck.

Chess is a game of skill, with elements of chance and luck.

More luck is involved in poker; however, both GAMES (not sports) require incredible amounts of skill and knowledge to play at very high levels.

How is chance involved in chess? Now please don't say that moving first is luck.

On the other 17 holes I typically hit it into the defense (water, sand traps, trees, people). It's such a tough sport even Michael Jordan had trouble with it. And look at his hand-eye-body coordination.

I consider gymnastics a sport.

Cheerleading...well, maybe at the highest levels where it resemble gymnastics or diving a bit..sure...I'll give it the nod for sport.

So if fun and amusement define sports and hunting is a sport...let's see...then serial killing (hunting humans) is a sport?

Hunting and serial killing involve fun and amusement, but for only one party I'm pretty sure.

Is morality a factor?

Give it up Kasparov. Chess is a game, like backgammon.

Chicken_Monster wrote:

So if fun and amusement define sports and hunting is a sport...let's see...then serial killing (hunting humans) is a sport?

Hunting and serial killing involve fun and amusement, but for only one party I'm pretty sure.

Is morality a factor?

Give it up Kasparov. Chess is a game, like backgammon.

Kasparov no longer plays professional chess!

Dear Mr. Aarongull, regarding post no7, I would like to inform that in the recent Olimpiyad held in Norway ,Seychelles board2 player,after failing to win a game and since he got only a draw ,collapsed and died. Another Ukraine player died the same night due to extreme stress!

WHat search? Google? It just refers you to the 1,000 threads already posted on this topic.

For the "slow" members, opee asks is chess a sport ? not ... do you class chess as a sport.

Is Hairsplitting a Sport on Chess.com ?  Most Certainly.

And while the answer to most binary formulated questions is "both,"

that has never stopped these crazy threads.