Chess, Is it a sport or not?
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Chess is a highly competitive sport. Sport isn`t only muscle force, it can also be brain force and in a competition the players can lose several kg because of this. The Brain need a lot of energy with high activity.
Not comparable to Ludo, because there isn't needed a lot of concentration, because winning or loosing is 90% random, depends only on little strategy, all other what schows the dices. -
@olli said in Chess, Is it a sport or not?:
I'm not gonna tattoo his name on my shoulder
Why would you tattoo anyone's name on your shoulder?
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In high school when I was asked whether I played any sports or not, I would often reply "no." Then quickly add the caveat that "play" was not the right verb to describe my participation in Nordic skiing and running races. They're certainly forms of sport, since they involve competition and physical prowess. But, they aren't "played" in the sense that they don't require a sequence of moves to win or be competitive.
Alternatively, sports such as football or tennis are sports which are "played." I would suggest that using the verb "to play" implies that the activity requires the enactment of a strategy involving sequential moves. For example, setting up a point in tennis (against a competent opponent) requires that you opponent not be able to return one of your hits. This can be achieved by the successful execution of a combination of moves. Having some physical prowess is necessary to execute a sequence of moves against a competent opponent in Tennis, but pure physical prowess won't win any games. Because of its reliance on strategy to win the competition, Tennis (among other activities which are "played") must also be considered a game.
Finally, when considering Chess, the execution of a sequence of moves is critical to winning against an opponent. Physical prowess is not important to the execution of a winning strategy in Chess. Because Chess does not require physical prowess but does require the execution of a sequence of moves to win, Chess is properly considered a game.
To summarize classifications:
I think a running race is properly classified as "Sport" since it relies almost entirely on physical prowess. Tennis is properly classified as both "Sport" and "Game" since it requires both physical prowess and strategy, while Chess is properly classified as "Game" since it requires strategy but no physical prowess. I don't intend to demean Chess by not considering it as a sport. It just doesn't require athleticism, which is characteristic of nearly all activities which are considered "sport" here in the United States.I may be biased anyway since I always preferred running to playing chess.
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If I want say in one word chess is a sport or not then the answer is yes.
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Absolutely Chess is a mind sport. It does engage the mind and requires mental skills, such as critical thinking, pattern recognition, and decision-making.
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I believe that Chess is definitely a sport, although in some ways it is not a physical sport. The main thing that Chess concerns is the players' mind, can they turn a winning position into an actual win, or can they draw (or even win) in a losing position? Chess is about thinking and making decisions, which is very similar to other mainstream sports.
So, yes, I do think that Chess is a sport.
p.s. If anyone is up for playing Chess I would really love to!
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Even though I don't play chess that much. It is definitely a sport to me. The technical and mental aspects of it go deep, which makes it a sport for me.
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I think there is too much binary thinking as to whether some activity is a "sport" or a "game." We often talk about the "soccer game" or the "game of tennis" which we explicitly call "sports", but if we talk about the "sport of chess" that somehow doesn't ring true. Part of this hesitation is that chess has tried for years to get recognized as an Olympic sport and has failed at every turn. I believe it is because the physical execution of the game of chess is not what is being directly evaluated as part of the game--a top-level chess player burns lots of calories sitting and thinking, but that is not what is being measured, it is the mental planning and execution that solely determines who wins and loses. How you place the pieces on the board does not factor into whether you win or lose. Physical games such as soccer, tennis, bowling, archery, judo, etc. etc. have a very strong mental component but it is the quality of the physical execution that gets you the points, score, etc.
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Wikipedia says it's a sport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess
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It might be worth asking the broader question
"When does any competition become a sport?"
or would any activity that you could compete in already have the potential where it could be formatted like a sport? If you could make a sport out of anything at what point does chess seem to cross the line into being one? I think the most important factor to consider is the conscious thought of the players influencing the outcome(there aren't any games of pure luck that anybody wants to consider a sport), but with more traditional sports that come to mind there is also an element of scoring which leads success rather than chess which works with a win/lose/stalemate scenario.
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@casualbyte, I think that every competition or activity, which need special capabilities, physical, mental or both, can be defind as Sport., the mentioned games like Ludo or similar competitions are certainly not, because they don't need any special capabillities, but dart games, billard or even Rubic Cubes and Cup Stacking, need certainly a lot of special capabillities, concentration, coordination, sped and need a lot of training, because of this they are defined as sports.
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I consider it a competitive game
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In my opinion, any sport that has the attributes of a game and involves competing with others and challenging natural obstacles is a competitive sport.
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A competition cam be a sport, a game or both, but a sport or a game are not always a competition, a workout in a gym, or jogging are sports, but not a competition
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Yes, it is a sport. Some sports test you more physically and some sports test you more mentally. Chess would be placed in the second category.
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imho it should be considered as sport. As some people suggested previously, you should be physically and mentally fit. My father was a chess genious. He would disappear over the weekends to play chess here and there at one street corner coffee shop or at another. He was aging fast and lost lost interest all of a sudden. ' What did you gain from playing chess all these years' i asked 'Nothing' he said. ' I am just tired' I don't know much, but this was his answer.
