Chess cards -- sports or nonsports?

[steve B]

When I was younger I had a list of things that made something a sport.
A yes to any makes it a sport.

1 Does it involve a ball. (Shape doesn't matter)
2 does it involve hitting something with a stick?
3 do the competitors wear numbers?

* there may have been others designed specifically to include sports I liked, but I don't remember them.

Soccer? Sport
Figure skating? Not a sport. Or at least it wasn't until the whole Nancy Kerrigan thing.

[sthoemke]

If a horse played chess, would it be considered an athlete?

[Arazi4442]

[QUOTE=sthoemke;2207063]If a horse played chess, would it be considered an athlete?[

Is Air Bud an athlete?

[mikemb]

I would not consider it a sport.

Question; Does anyone know if there was ever a card issued of a chess player named Anatoly Lein? Don't think he was very famous. I worked with his wife in the early 1980's. I know they both passed away about a week apart some 4 years ago.

No cards on Ebay.

Mike

[ClementeFanOh]

First, I am a long time chess player and amateur follower of chess. I also
own a handful of cool chess cards. Is chess a sport? NO. It's a skill- a heck of
a skill, but a skill. Want to make a golfer mad? Tell them it's not a sport (which
it isn't). Same for auto racing. GREAT skills, NOT sports though. Doesn't
devalue them either, just defines them. Blast away! Trent King

[D. Bergin]

For the purposes of this section of the forum...I think it's safe to show off your chess cards here.

[frankbmd]

I was once told that any competition in which you could drink beer while competing was not a sport.

How much beer you could consume and still compete might be considered a sport though for some.