Chess - Is it a sport?

Even though I'm an avid chess player, I don't believe Chess is a sport. There's no other sport remotely like it, and for a game to qualify as a sport, it needs to be physically based. What do you think?

Sporting, Sports, Sportable...

Means what you're doing can be competable in any way desired, i doesn't have to be a physically a sport, but we also have the olympic game "Archery" wich doesn't have much of that strength and endurance you need, as precisions and strength enough to hold to bow is the only requirements needed to win...

Chess is all mind, making it able to be a mind-sportable game, making your mind/brain working in full speed, there every solution is possible by making one specific move...

Brain is a muscle as well, and every muscle can be practiced in every way possible, if you can't have visable muscles, then show your inner muscles

Flammie wrote:Sporting, Sports, Sportable...

Means what you're doing can be competable in any way desired, i doesn't have to be a physically a sport, but we also have the olympic game "Archery" wich doesn't have much of that strength and endurance you need, as precisions and strength enough to hold to bow is the only requirements needed to win...

Chess is all mind, making it able to be a mind-sportable game, making your mind/brain working in full speed, there every solution is possible by making one specific move...

You're pretty much saying every game is a sport. <_< For a game to qualify as a sport, it needs to have a physical component pushing you to a phycical limit that can be visualized. That's what sets Archery and Chess apart, for example.

Stephen wrote:You're pretty much saying every game is a sport. <_< For a game to qualify as a sport, it needs to have a physical component pushing you to a phycical limit that can be visualized. That's what sets Archery and Chess apart, for example.

A Staring Contest have a physical limits of withdrawing yourself from blinking, notify that a huge portion of the human body is basicly Muscles, so telling what is "Physical" is near impossible...

By physical limit I mean movement as well. There is minimal movement in a staring contest.

When you sleep you have to breath, When you sit, you have to use your balance to not fall off, when you're laying down, you need energy to not fall asleep etc...

Everything is needing energy or some sort of motion to work, otherwise you're just a dead body, wich can't do nothing more but rot...

I looked up the meaning of sport and a sport must push you to both a physical and mental limit. Unless a high number of people find moving a chess piece difficult, chess does not qualify as a sport.

Armless people, Blind people, Glass Bodies...

There are a lot of things that difficults things for chess players anyway...

Disabled athletes do not count.

I'm out of horrible excuses why Chess would be a sport xD

It's still a logical sport where you have to find a way to manipulate the opponents move, by moving your own...