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Seriously though, I'm of the opinion that as chess is a competition which requires great skill and practice it is indeed a real aggressive,'vying of the minds ' sport.
Personally speaking I prefer participating in the more rugged outdoor sports, such as playing dominos at pavement cafes, ha.
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In many aspects, chess is more real if a sport than football or baseball. So I agree with your position completely.
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Chess is a board game.
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http://londonchessconference.com/a-question-of-sport/
Ten Reasons why Chess is a Sport
@anonymousdebater,
your argument of lack of physical activity regarding chess:
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You won't convince me.
Chess may be very competitive and lucrative.
But it's still a board game.
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When you are good at chess... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Does the other player(s) physically try to counteract you while interacting with a shared mechanism?
Example, golf is not a sport, no one is trying to stop you from hitting that ball.
Tennis is a sport.
Bowling is not a sport, baseball is a sport.
Darts, not a sport, football is a sport.
Nascar is not a sport, badminton is a sport.
Chess is a board game.
Are you seriously going to call backgammon a sport? Yahtzee? Checkers? Tic-Tac-Toe? Chutes and ladders?
Anything can be a competition, including spitting for distance but that doesn't make it a sport.
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Or...…….. Chess is in no way a sport, it was one of the oldest games to be created into a more modern computer video game. See what I did? I made a Game Sandwich, two pieces of not sport holding a portion of modern game play as a quick delicacy.
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Now, you can say, "But the top individuals in these sports are all physically fit!" Yes, indeed: to be on top of any sports, you do have to be in a good physical shape. To be on top of any field period, you have to be in a good physical shape. But it is not the requirement to do a lot of sports recreationally.
If you look at top chess players, they are all, no exceptions, in good physical shape. Chess is an extremely demanding sport, and some professional players sometimes even commit suicide due to the psychological and intellectual strain the game puts on them. You have to exercise regularly, maintain a healthy diet and watch your physical condition in general to persevere in such conditions.
Chess is my favorite way to spend my spare time, and although I no longer try to play competitively, as I did in my teenage years, I still manage to play on the level of a solid Master Candidate. Chess is no joke, and the higher up the ladder you go, the more challenging it gets. At a level serious enough, losing a long and tedious game can effectively disable you for the rest of the day; it is that intense.
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It is not a conventional sport, in the sense of physical actions being required, but more so a sport that creates a thinking environment of actions that can still be graded on a level of how the game is played.
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I conclude that it is a sport.
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I conclude that it is a sport.
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Sorry. I might have pressed the Post button twice.
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