Why is chess a sport?

Do you know, I have an English friend who has a mobile phone and there are two treble sixes in his phone number. Now you're jealous.

Your fondness for b/w films.

Wasn’t Lenin in western Europe during the 1905 failed revolution?

I don't know but he was definitely an extremist, who basically believed in elitism and the use of terror tactics. The split of the revolutionaries naturally caused Bolshevism, which is defined as the rule of the majority, to form exclusive groups which carried the real power, unlike the Menshevik belief in a pure socialism. Bolshevism is naturally bound to produce authoritarian rule .... it's fundamentally undemocratic and Lenin caused that movement to rise, so that he can be considered directly responsible for pretty much everything which followed.

     The "Odessa steps" scene from "Battleship Potemkin" is a classic and created a sensation in its day because it was the first film to use newly-invented film editing technology to frequently and instantly cut from one point of view to another. I prefer Sergei Eisenstein's later works "Alexander Nevsky" and "Ivan the Terrible".

     There are probably three reasons that it seems like "modern" films don't measure up to older movies:

     The vast number of cheap second/third-rate movies of yesteryear have long been relegated to the dustbin, meaning the ones we still see are the cream of the crop while we are exposed to all of today's junk.

     The movie-going audience has changed with the growth of home theater systems and streaming services, leaving the movie theaters (and the film studios that supply them) to the less sophisticated teen/young adult crowd out on a date.

     Those of us commenting here are all old fogies.

I watched a very old silent Japanese b&w film from maybe 1923 about warring clans in Japan, in the early days of Netflix. Netflix is now full of complete rubbish and I can't remember the name of that film.

I agree

We could call chess a sport maybe because a competitive background and you do exhert the mental aspect instead of the physical aspect so l guess you could call it a sport?

I've said it hundreds of times, I'll say it again.

What makes a sport a sport?

Go back to the Original Olympics.

Sports is military preparedness.

Chess is born from a military art.

Chess is a sport.

Every MMA fighter calls fighting "a chess game". Because it is.

Chess is the oldest continuous martial art.

Yeh l still don't think chess is a sport

Why is there 3 different topics to debate this? Why did you have to resurrect this old one? Were the other 2 not enough?

So is chess a sport?

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