why no chess in Olympics

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.

You are wasting your time. See #27, the guy is thick as a brick.

"You can recognize a deceitful one when he's putting things out of context" Stephen Jay Gould.

The IM should have at least quoted the previous poster's text if it was in response to that. However, it's a pretty good excuse though.

It's not our fault you're so dense you can't see it's sarcasm.

much prefer to see snakes and ladders in the Olympics.

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Chess was not considered a sport by IOC till June of 1999.

Chess players were 'pushing' strongly for chess to enter in the Olympics since a century ago. It was refused because Olympic games used to be for amateurs and they said that men couldn't figure out the difference between an amateur chess player and a professional chess player in the past.

In 1924 when chess was once more refused, chess players decided to organize their own chess olympiad for the first time in Nice (France), where the summer olympic games were also being held. And at that time the FIDE was founded also.

The chess olympiad that are held every two years by FIDE is currently the biggest team event in the world, but FIDE still has a desire for chess to enter the summer olympic games.

Chess is the sport with most IOC members at the moment (186 countries). 

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chess will be added in 2020 Olympics

Not necessarily, for example there are martial arts that are olympics and others that not.

Chess is recognized as a sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC); since June 1999 FIDE has been recognized by the International Sports Federation.

I thought the only hold up was over drug testing.

I agree with Lasker 1900. But I don't mind if chess would be part of summer Olimpics, as long as nobody touches the current Chess Olympiads held every 2 years.

Just play the Olympiads in the Summer and Winter Olympics. It's still every 2 years,but Russia can't compete. 

Why?