Should chess be considered a sport?

If there is not a whole lot of sweat and some blood involved it is not and will never be a sport.

well, fights have broken out over chess games.

I suspect almost any of the large primates could perform better IF we could get them to understand the rules. I think Murgen is wrong about the required pay though. Jack the babboon was paid 20 cents per day and a half bottle of beer per week as a train signal operator in the 1800s.  He could command an incredible salary as a star athlete today.

in spite of his age.

and another thing... nothing done in a suit can be considered a sport. That makes three things, the suits, the lack of profuse sweating and the lack of blood ( consistant blood is what we want to see Gouryella) I conclude therefor that chess is not a sport.

wait there are the books, sport cannot be learned from books, that makes four things, four things that totally proves chess is not a sport. Those four things plus cheerleaders.

"Chess is recognized as a sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC); since June 1999 FIDE has been recognized by the International Sports Federation. As a member of the IOC, FIDE adheres to its rules, including, controversially, a requirement for doping tests". 

Yes it's official chess is a sport. 

Oh, wait I forgot about the IOC, the CIA, FBI, NSA ,wikipedia and Hollywood those are true measures of how we should view things. A sport played in a suit...think about it man.

Not a sport. You can play it online.

        Just because the IOC says so, does not make chess a sport. Remember, it regards such ridiculous activities as synchronised swimming and diving and rythmic gymnastics as sports, which they certainly are not.

There's that quote.  I had found it and posted it in the last "is chess a sport or not" thread.  It's a sport.

Hell yes Shuffleking, more undenaiable evidence. The only people who wants to see chess called a sport are those who have spent half their lives looking at little diagrams trying to figure out the counter to the Suedo-Scrommfeldston opening on the 17 th move if the knight is played instead of the bishop. This they think will somehow give meaning to the hours they wasted playing chess knowing full well they will never, ever approach a level where they will see a GM title on their personal horizons let alone earn a single penny from their efforts and even worse never use any of their chess knowledge to wow women with.

What kind of sport requires you to arrive already drunk because you cannot go buy a beer while watching two un-profusely sweating, unbloodied, suited people play a game of chess without cheerleaders present.

Sport is a cultural term. In eastern Europe and Russia, chess is covered in the sports pages. Here in the US, it's rarely covered at all!

You guess...technically ....!?? I guess making coffee requires some degree of fine motor skills, especially when making a quick cup so technically making coffee is a sport.

You could do it in your pajamas as long as you made coffee quickly and enough people wanted to see you do it. Cooking is therefor a sport. What has the world come to? Is this how a sport is defined ? Are we now to mention Professional Wrestling and chess in the same sentence as sport? This kind of thinking is what is turning the Olympic Games into such a farce and why nothing the IOC says anymore matters. I am going back to the ' why carry on living 'thread where I can spend time with other depressed people.

So chess is a sport according to the International Olympic Committee and chess is not a sport according to the dictionary definition.

That seems to be the world we live in these days.

The dictionary was maybe written by a "chess is a game" fanatic.

This thread is sorely lacking TheGrobe and his venn diagram.

Defo!

So next time in your job interview,when asked if you do any sports,say yes,of course,chess!And hope for the best!