why no chess in Olympics

Chess is a game for the intellectuals, not for the average dude that still lives on 1980 and watches TV!

If you watch the Olympics you dont have Interent, LOL! Youtube is better.

I read some place that it will be in 2020 olympics. not sure but.

me too red that, it will be added in 2020olympics,,

I smell racism in trump words

We don't need Chess Fever together with Zika. 

what sort of idiot would propose that chess be part of the olympics?

i am guessing some idiot that doesnt have a life .........

chess won't work. It is too slow, It is also in too little countries proffesionally

but it will be there in next Olympics

justchekin99 u can protest against it,dont panic

Why are they idiots? Care to explain? You sound like a 12 year old kid.

sport is a physical contest - chess isnt! what part of that is hard to understand? only a total moron would want it to be part of the olympics.

i know some idiot will claim that not all sports are "athletic", like shooting etc. however every sport, olympic or otherwise, is a PHYSICAL CONTEST. only physical aspect of chess is a really long hard fought game can be physically exhausting, especially for elderly players. however the game itself does NOT require physical skill or endurance, ergo it is not a sport. it wouldnt even qualify as a "para olympics" sport, even though blind people as well as physically disabled people have managed to become very accomplished players.

it reminds me of a case years ago where some idiot in a wheel chair wanted to enter the world championship in a medium distance running event and claimed "discrimination" despite the fact that he wanted to use his wheelchair while he expected the regular runners to run without assistance except for their regular running abilities.

making chess an olympic sport makes about the same amount of sense ......

So you called them idiots just because justcheckin99 considers every person who wants chess in the olympics as idiots? 

I expect an IM who's old enough to be my grandpa to have at least some reasoning skills. I'm truly disspointed.

well,whatever your view you might be watching chess in 2020 Olympics, there are new 26 sports included The full list of 26 sports to apply is: Air Sports, American football, baseball-softball, bowls, bowling, bridge, chess, dance sport, floorball, flying disc, karate, korfball, netball, orienteering, polo, racquetball, roller sports, sport climbing, squash, sumo, surfing, tug of war, underwater sports, waterski and wakeboard and wushu.

Oh, please... they have horse riding in the olympics! seriously? Horses are a test of a HUMAN's physical and mental overall well being, but chess isn't?

Just what I thought.

There is no reason to put chess in the Olympics.

What would be the point, really?

The system works as best it could. There are tournaments every week, candidates, championships, etc. etc.
What could putting chess in the Olympics actually achieve?

Just in case you are not trolling: pfren didn't call them idiots. Poster #1 makes a supposedly rethorical question ("what sort of idiot would purpose...?") and receives an answer by poster #2 ("I can name some idiots...") who means is not such an impossible as poster #1 seems to think.

In his own words..

"I can name some idiots that proposed chess being part of olympics in the past: FIDE presidents Fridrik Olafsson and Florencio Campomanes."

This IM (Prfen) says that Fridrik Olafssom (Friðrik Ólafsson is an Icelandic chess Grandmaster and former president of FIDE.)

and Florencio Campomanes (Florencio Campomanes was a Filipino political scientist, chess player, and chess organizer) 

are Idiots. 

The IM deserves an applause.