BF2S Forums The sportiness of chess

Errr games can be sports, doesn't mean they all are. Or that all sports are games.

Poker is a game, it is not a sport.
Running is a sport, it is not a game.
Football is a sport and a game.

Motor racing involves physical activity so is a sport.

what? putting your foot down and turning a wheel counts as physical activity?

sports do not have to be physical

SamBo:D wrote:

what? putting your foot down and turning a wheel counts as physical activity?

sports do not have to be physical

Yeah, I'm sure racers just kind of sit slumped in their cars, not doing anything but turning the wheel slightly and keeping their foot down.

no u

Driving does not require any exertion.

Racing does.

SamBo:D wrote:

shut up, if you think driving counts as a physical exertion exercise then so is fuckin playing chess

Nah, chess is a game, not a sport.  Sports require physical exertion.  Guess it depends on the size of the pieces, though.  If there are life-sized that could be a sport.

Neither do chess players

Superior Mind wrote:

DefCon-17 wrote:

Whatever the opposite of slouching in your seat is.

I'm no race car driver, but I don't think they race with all their muscles completely inert and relaxed.

Clearly he has no experience doing 90 in a 65 with his windows rolled down screamin' "ah!".

Sounds fun.

I love chess, but no, it is not a competition of physical skill, and not a sport

If you think about it.... doesn't all sports have some sort of risk for injury..

Hockey? getting beaten to death by a pissed of Canadian with a stick
Football?  Being tackled by a coke machine with arms and legs
Basketball? twising your ankle.
Tennis? Twisting yor ankle.
Ping Pong? Straining your wrist.
MotoX? Severe Head Injury from a long fall.
Soccer? getting kicked in the tenders

Chess?.. getting a rook throw at you, I don't think that counts.

Mos' def. I was undefeated in my chess team for the one season i played.

But then again i play lawn bowls as well and have to convince people that's a sport and not an "activity".

SamBo:D wrote:

what? putting your foot down and turning a wheel counts as physical activity?

sports do not have to be physical

I disagree. Motor racing counts as a sport because it's not just pushing pedals down and turning a wheel. In Rally driving look at the drivers and the navigators, they look like their physically fighting their cars. It requires utmost concentration and requires the driver and navigator being like coiled springs in order to keep their reaction times fast enough to not crash. That kind of driving is physically exhausting.

In lastability kind of races like the Indy 500 I can see what you mean, you see the drivers emerge after that and they're not exactly puffing and panting. They're mentally exhausted but I imagine that would be a similar feeling after a Chess tournament too.

There's certainly a grey area. However no matter what you call motor racing, either a race, a sport or perhaps even a game, Chess still fits in as a game. Not a sport. Not a race. A game.