Also, rugby uses "sport" as a disguise for its true purpose; inflicting all manner of harm upon your fellow man. The more I think on this, the more I realise nothing counts as a sport anymore.
Also, rugby uses "sport" as a disguise for its true purpose; inflicting all manner of harm upon your fellow man. The more I think on this, the more I realise nothing counts as a sport anymore.
For me? Definitely a game. While I love playing it, I wouldn't say it's a sport.
If playing frigging Starcraft is a sport these days, I guess chess can be too.
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Originally Posted by Quinter Wonderland
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There is a very clear difference between physical sports, like football, and esports, like Starcraft. Nobody in either realm is going to calm, with any real seriousness, that Starcraft is akin to football or baseball.
If you get a circulatory collapse from thinking about how you get the checkmate, then yes, it is sport.
Other than that is just called "sport of brains/thinkers". I mean, math is probably sport then, too. Normally you define "sports" as something physical which can be seen and I don't think about someone sitting at a chess board and sweating because it is a hard turn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoOBbChxb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIWYy97-KsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1nAE1czuo
Maybe this is chess as a sport and no, I don't mean the battle scene but the game and thinking.
Last edited by Sephiroth; 03-23-2013 at 04:59 AM.
Judging by your previous posts in this thread I think it is safe to say you cannot consider playing videogames to be a sport.There is a very clear difference between physical sports, like football, and esports, like Starcraft. Nobody in either realm is going to calm, with any real seriousness, that Starcraft is akin to football or baseball.
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Not for me. Chess is a game, plain and simple.
Not to complicate the issue any further but what do we all think about snooker?
Mostly I just wanted to make a bad pun
A sport? I would say so, chess.
Chess can be a sport so long as me telling people on the internet they are wrong can also be a sport.
I believe any game that can be described by discreet actions is not a sport. There must be some form of physical quantum action chaos theory is involved. As such games like starcraft which while seem continuous are defined by discreet computer bits is not a sport, neither is chess where each move is a discreet action.
Try to find an exception to that rule
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Your Mom.
i respect people who it it as more than I see it as, as more of a sport
however this tends towards rather heated (and in the extremes) rabid & potentially harmful competition, which i tend to mislike if it turns rather ugli(er), and people are hurt
thusly, i voted no, it is not a sport, i do not treat it as a competetive sport, such as tennis or badmington, tho it IS competitive at times. it's a battle of attrition, and a game wherein to lose is truly to win, as you improve, both in the game's form of logic-based logistical problem-solving, and just in general
if I have kids some day, when they're not reading something they feel like enjoying, or gaming etc. they will learn of the values of cool calm, reason and logic in the face of an adversary trying to bluff you into a blunder
good practice for life, in a way
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Not a sport, but is cheerleading?
Well if syncronised swiming is I dont see why notNot a sport, but is cheerleading?
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