Why is chess a sport?

Mayan ball courts 1000 BCE. Early American sport.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/article/lidar-analyses-in-the-contiguous-miradorcalakmul-karst-basin-guatemala-an-introduction-to-new-perspectives-on-regional-early-maya-socioeconomic-and-political-organization/31075DFA8ADBAA5E7C7320CA6DB93E5E

In other words, expertise is of no value. Those who have invested their lives in learning something must be presumed to be biased. To avoid such bias, we must canvass the ignorant.

It isn't.

Chess is a game, an overrated game.  Not a sport.

Your broad brush is the problem. It is a hasty generalization presented without evidence. It is also consistent with your opinions on things like vaccines, where you substitute anecdotes from a family member for the developed views of a legion of professionals.

Throwing out the expertise of all sporting bodies because of perceived vested interests. Maybe if you spent some time documenting how these interests have produced error, you would have an argument.

It's a war of the minds, not a sport

Assalomu alaykum everyone

It's simply a game 

Wrong.
Never said anything of the sort.
Only pointed out that you threw the baby into the gray water pit.

Depends on what you're talking about, how you define the word sport and how you look at the history of the game (which country, time or culture).

Since you can hardly dissociate the mind from the body, without facing dire consequences, most sports require both to be in good shape.

Unlike football which is played by headless chickens, most particularly at a high level. Hence football (soccer) is not a sport.

We know how chess players train physically. If you don't, watch some chess boxing.

I played my one and only game on Chess.com vs a living person a few days ago, which ended in a stalemate. I lost a kilo. I need a massage. Stil hurts,

So, yes, it is a sport. One of the toughest probably. Although, in the end, an answer is always subjective.

Chess is neither a science nor an art most definitely not a game or sport , its a WAR , supposedly a simulation of war but in reality a war.

would this be similar to the out of shape souls that play in a tournament and therefore think they are athletic? and then insist chess is a sport?

like stratego? or risk?

I am saying that they can be taken seriously. Their "vested interest" includes expertise, which you dismiss too readily.

Your opinion is easy to dismiss.

There are those who claim expertise on matters related to the definition of sport, despite your assertion to the contrary.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001139216701500301?journalCode=csia

When it seems like everyone else is losing their mind, you should see your doctor.

Bcs you mast watch xctentational

Just mental. Sometimes we can tell by the goals of chess players.

No. We post about it. TICCPROW 

I never claimed expertise. I criticized your dismissal of expertise on flimsy grounds.

The first stage is TOURNA-MENTAL and the second and last is MENTAL