why no chess in Olympics

it takes skill and fitness to ride a horse. put an unfit inexperienced rider on the best horse of all time and see how many gold medals they win. duh .....

I've ridden horses just enough to appreciate how far I have to go before getting good at it.

i saw on a tv show once (bones), where they claimed that sport was originally adopted as practice for warfare skills. 

this is the only claim that chess would have to the olympics because if true about the warfare skills thing, and chess being a game of war, that gives the argument a minute amount of credibility, but i still dont see it as a physical sport.

over the years, games have been added that probably shouldnt have been. i saw a few years ago where there was this stupid kids school playground game played in the olympics where kids threw a tennis ball to each other, but very early in the proceedings, it was decided to dump the "sport" after those olympics finished.

personally i see the olympics as a waste of money, as well as being a non event, in that nowadays it is a game of drug enhancement with 2 teams competing (one team producing drugs that doctors cant detect, while the other team tries to detect the new drugs).

i saw these chinese female swimmers in the world championships years ago who literally had bodies like arnold schwartsneiger.

i rarely watch olympic events as i dont get excited about some poor sap that spends all their childhood trying to swim or run .001 of a second faster than the next kid who also sacraficed his or her childhood to fail by a fraction of a second, in some cases because some unknown developed a new drug which the authorities at that point in time were unable to detect.

if its ok with you guys i will stick to a contest where drugs probably will never give anybody a real advantage (chess comes to mind)

Even that minute amount of credibility is pretty tenuous. Many treatises on warfare have been written and much engineering has gone into weapons of war, but writing and using CAD programs would make poor Olympic sports.

The thing about entire childhoods being sacrificied for a (usually-failed) shot at being in the olympics has always upset me. By that token, though, I wonder how many hours of how many years kids sacrifice who grow up to maybe become chess greats. I'm seriously asking; I have no idea.

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yeah why not?

Because it's like watching paint dry to the majority of sports freaks. It simply lacks popular appeal.

yeah why not?

It has nothing to do with spectators or not.

It is a board game....not a sport - a board game ! What part of board game don't you understand ?

Many sports over the years have been cancelled 'cuz ppl aren't interested enuf in them.

I have a question. If we allow chess then can we take outta wrenched ankle ?....you know....Operation ?

Chess has popular appeal if broadcasted well. Good commentators, and a board with a Houdini-calculated scale where everybody can se who is pulling away or getting caught up with.

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hmm i guess we are all idiots in a way .....

given the obvious fact that chess is not a sport, the people who argue that it should become an olympic sport are obviously idiots BUT ......

somebody who tries to reason with an idiot is a .........?

btw, if you figure chess should become an olympic sport, how about snakes and ladders?

queenie queenie whose got the ball?

tunnelball?

motorcycle racing?

speed sewing?

knitting?

aeroplane racing?

as for chess being entertaining to watch, it well may be for very good players who appreciate the brilliance of top level chess. however the average person doesnt even know the rules of chess, let alone appreciate the finer points and skill of the game. the same probably applies to american football where the average person doesnt understand the rules, as well as the fact that most countries dont play the sport, and the ones that do dont have the interest or the depth in the sport as the usa. obviously usa would win gold every time. anybody who wants to add it is a total moron......

Shooting guns and golf are olympic sports. No reason why chess boxing can't be in the olympics too.

i absolutely love chess but have no interest in watching it, except for post mortems on situations.

nearest thing i saw to it being entertaining to watch when there is dead silence and the only sound is the clock ticking was a tv ad for throat lozenges......

a guy watching the game with a really bad sore throat takes a soother and feels so great he shocks everybody by screaming GO THE BLACK!

except for that incident, i find watching a guy study the board for 10 minutes intently, about as exciting as hearing about bill clinton's former next door neighbour's cousin's karate instructor's wifes boyfriend's haemarroids .......

both of those activities are bona fide sports, and fill the criteria of sport being a practice of war skills. both are physically demanding albeit not gruelling like boxing or athletics etc, but still are physical sports requiring skill and fitness nonetheless. adding chess and other ridiculous addons to the olympic games just proves my point about the games themselves being a load of bs, and in many cases, are a drug competition, to see who can produce the most effective, non-detectable cheat drug.

Have you ever seen what Craig Stadler and John Daly look like? They are obese dudes who were top PGA golfers in their primes. Hard to say golf requires physical "fitness" based on that evidence.