You could use your argument to say that watching TV is a sport, because you could be tired from hours of watching TV.
Chess doesn't involve physical exertion, and isn't a sport.
Watching TV isn't a sport though. 1. Not competitive and 2.NO skills required.
Even if chess isn't a sport it's definately LIKE a sport - we can all agree there.
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You could use your argument to say that watching TV is a sport, because you could be tired from hours of watching TV.
Chess doesn't involve physical exertion, and isn't a sport.
Watching TV isn't a sport though. 1. Not competitive and 2.NO skills required.
Even if chess isn't a sport it's definately LIKE a sport - we can all agre there.
Watching television is pretty much mindless. It gives you all of the information, and requires no input. Agreed, it's a poor comparison.
If you take it out of context, yes.
Watching the Seahawks with my boxers in the room is sport. Eveytime the Hawks score, they go crazy and want to wrestle.
I'm not talking about educational programs here. The majority of television shows qualify as mindless.
That wasn't the point. Something tiring you out if you do it for hours on end isn't enough activity to count as physical exercise.
Chess competition does more than cultivate exhaustion. Playing at a high level burns calories at a level comparable to physical exercise.
Breathing burns calories.
Is digging ditches a sport?
Is digging ditches a sport?
No. There is no organized ditch digging competition, as there is for eating hot dogs. Digging ditches is hard physical labor. Eating hot dogs is sport.
How 'bout driving steel? Would Polly Ann have to compete in the men's division?
How 'bout driving steel? Would Polly Ann have to compete in the men's division?
If she wants any competition, she will need to. I don't think the rules could compel it, however. She was no Kaitlyn.
It is true that chess torunaments have frequently been known to take EXTREME physical tolls on players. From the highest ranks to the lowest.
Running a marathon or playing a game of basketball is obviously more exhausting. Chess is much easier in comparison.
Golf is less physically draining than rugby, badbmiton requires MUCH less strength than tennis. Are sports on a 'scale', making more physically demading sports 'more of a sport' than less demanding ones?
I suppose there could be a definition for "sport",and after a consensus is reached,chess could be examnied to see if it meets the definition.In fact,without a unambiguous,universally agreed upon definition for what consitutes a "sport" it is rather futile to discuss the question.
One of these threads again?
Is digging ditches a sport?
If you have a chess game going while digging, BurgerKingBud will insist it is.
american = not qualified to talk about rugby
chess still = board game
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Nothing quite says "you've got a point" like avoiding said point.
Chess is a board game,g not a sport. Otherwise you could call checkers, backgammon, monopoly, and risk a sport.
It is true that chess torunaments have frequently been known to take EXTREME physical tolls on players. From the highest ranks to the lowest.