OT: is chess a sport?

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by Fred

Ok Brad, now you should post the back of the card.....

Lets see it...

[Peter_Spaeth]

It's right there in post 18.

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

It's right there in post 18.

Didn't make the connection. Walking that far aint no thing...try doing the wonderland trail in under 24 hours.

[Arazi4442]

I would agree that it's very difficult to classify chess as a sport, but that doesn't mean you can't admire the work ethic, talent, etc. of the best players in the world.
Personally, I'm a very unskilled amateur but enjoy learning about some of the all-time greats - just like baseball, basketball, football, boxing, hockey and all the rest.

[Snapolit1]

A bit OT, but does anyone remember in the late 80s where all of a sudden everyone and his mother and great aunt were playing backgammon? Everywhere I looked. Everyone was playing. Tournaments. People were taking lessons.
I haven’t seen a backgammon board pulled out now in decades. (Obviously millions of people around the world love the game.)

[Eric72]

These days, there are so-called E-sports. This often involves people playing video games...for an audience...with television coverage.

If that qualifies as a “sport” then so, too, would chess.

Just my opinion.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Eric72

These days, there are so-called E-sports. This often involves people playing video games...for an audience...with television coverage.

If that qualifies as a “sport” then so, too, would chess.

Just my opinion.

Never were the words truer, "You are all a lost generation."