What is chess? Game or sport?
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TheGrobe Writes ...
"Which has no credibility on the subject, as evinced by their inclusion of chess and bridge (among others) as sports."
You seem to be so sure that you are right , and that the International Olympic Committee are wrong - seems like you and I are gonna have to agree to disagree.
It can be explained by a more simple rationale. Jocks =/= nerds.
Yeah, perhaps, though the complete and total lack of any kind of physical exertion as a requirement to play the game certainly sees me on the side of the dictionary definition of sport.
Here_Is_Plenty wrote:
It can be explained by a more simple rationale. Jocks =/= nerds.
Chess is the best game, and about the worst sport (if it even was one). Why are we so keen to devalue it?
Arguably, tiddlywinks is more strenuous.
TheGrobe wrote:
Here_Is_Plenty wrote:
It can be explained by a more simple rationale. Jocks =/= nerds.
Chess is the best game, and about the worst sport (if it even was one). Why are we so keen to devalue it?
Don't quote me as if I am arguin', bruh :p
TheGrobe wrote:
Cool Venn diagramme. Did you draw that yourself?
TheGrobe Writes ...
"Chess is the best game, and about the worst sport (if it even was one). Why are we so keen to devalue it?"
I would argue that Chess is the best Sport !.
johnmusacha wrote:
TheGrobe wrote:
Cool Venn diagramme. Did you draw that yourself?
Yeah, ages ago in one of the earlier incarnations of this thread.
Neat!
Feb 3, 2015
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And if, before arguing about sport or game, you define what is a sport and what is a game. After you could put chess, soccer, gulf or what else in the good case.
For me chess is Art 
kaynight wrote:
Man did not play chess on the moon.
Who said they did? Plus you say man did not walk on the moon everywhere here.
johnmusacha wrote:
Neat!
Gawwd!! You can easily find this on Google Images. Creator unidentified.
Okay, but that's on a totally different note. Choose either game or sport.
Nope. The exact definition differs throughout everyone's minds. But there are no exact boundaries between game and sport. Although you could check up various definitions to mess up your mind. And this messing up led me to create this thread. Yet, no conclusion in sight, ZeeghamShaarih!
Funny enough!
That's really what all of this comes down to. For some reason there is a fairly widespread perception that Sports are superior to Games and because chess is such a great game there are many who would like to see it "elevated" to the status of sport. It is this faction that fundamentally and continually undermines the definition of the word "sport" in order to make this the case.
To be clear: The difference between Sport and Game is on of kind, not one of degree.
Can we please stop this nonsense now?
There you go again TheGrobe !. You again say "Chess is such a great game , but again I disagree ( I say it's a great sport ) , so perhaps it would be best now to end this nonsense" , as you say.
David-100 wrote:
There you go again TheGrobe !. You again say "Chess is such a great game , but again I disagree ( I say it's a great sport ) , so perhaps it would be best now to end this nonsense" , as you say.
I'm not even sure I can actually tell what you are saying at all, since you insist on playing fast and loose with definitions.