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Chess is a sport for your brain

Isobel The Sorceress wrote:My two cents:

Sport: Physical activity. Improving your strength and technique to become better than your opponent (or just to beat your own previous records).

Game: Any activity that has rules that you can either win or lose (draw also possible). Requires strategy and skills.

bender wrote:Chess is a sport for your brain

I guess that's where the answer lies - A Sport, being Chess is somewhat physical (physically moving pieces), that "improves your strength and technique," i.e. your brain.

I don't know if there's a game that helps improve your strength and technique - Monopoly, for example. It's casual, doesn't really give you any skill improvement.

I don't consider chess (or any other board game) a sport. Their key is in the strategy (and sometimes chance, rolling dices for example).
I meant strength in a physical way only (muscle power and endurance).

I'd say team sports and one-on-one sports (tennis, for example) can also be called games, since they require both strength and strategy.

Then again track and field sports are not games. You just have to run faster/jump higher/throw further etc. than any other competitor. No strategy, just power and technique.

Well then the Board game Jumanji, and Zathura are a real sprt then. It requires a lot of physical energy.

Rooster5man wrote: I guess that's where the answer lies - A Sport, being Chess is somewhat physical (physically moving pieces), that "improves your strength and technique," i.e. your brain.

If you say chess is a sport because it's *physical* because it requires physically moving pieces, then technically there is no game that doesn't require physically doing stuff.

I'd say team sports and one-on-one sports (tennis, for example) can also be called games, since they require both strength and strategy.

Then again track and field sports are not games. You just have to run faster/jump higher/throw further etc. than any other competitor. No strategy, just power and technique.

If I say there's no difference between games and sports, that seems wrong, but, in this definition, any game can be a sport and vice-versa.

I'm starting to doubt there's any correct answer, it's possibly a matter of opinion.

Or perhaps Sports are organized fair competition. That would also mean Trading Card Games can be considered sports, but for Chess to be called a Sport...Hmm, well, Bobby Fischer was involved in the Chess Olympiad - Perhaps if it's recognized by the Olympics Committee, it's considered a Sport.

Okay, new topic.

Is the Ability of Control also the Ability of Chaos. If we think about it, if you create control and stable environment all around the World. then one day you decide you were going to shut it off for one day. The result would create Chaos.

Thus, The Ability of Control is the Ability of Chaos.

Well, without order, there's chaos. They're yin and yang. The ability to maintain control, in the sense of "turning off Government," is somewhat able to create chaos, but that's only because they're opposites. If you decide not to control any longer, then that creates chaos - You have no control, and it leads to chaos. And if you create chaos, you can "turn off" chaos by creating control.

Entropy is gonna break your shit eventually, anyway.

No strategy, just power and technique.

This is not strictly correct... Running has more strategy than I figure the average person would think. It is definitely not a game, but there is a good deal of strategy in pacing, positioning and surging, and I think the fact that the sport is predominantly physical might actually make coaching it more strategic than most sports, because conditioning has to be tailored so that people are doing as they can without getting injured (which is a risky line to walk).

Of course I'm no expert on any sport other than running, and not really running either, and of course I do admit it's not at all the game of skill that most sports are.