Running for the bus should be an olympic sport. 

Debating what is or isn't sport is one of those endless and pointless debates. F1? Dressage?

Are sports art.

In Snooker especially, being able to plan and play your shots cleverly and appropriately is a requirement like Chess but it is a sport in my eyes because you have to be able to physically pull off that shot which takes a high degree of skill brought on by practise, unless I'm missing a special technique of moving my pieces in Chess which is letting me down.

Chess involves having the physical ability to sit at a table for hours without going mental and punching someone. About the same amount of physical effort as snooker.

Everything involves some amount of physical effort but if you're going to classify sport within the physical then surely it needs to be a test of physical ability not just involve it. What sort of fucking sentence is that, Jesus?

I know how and why Snooker players make their shots but I cannot physically do it, that's enough for me.

Seems legit

There's a rather curious misappreciation of human endeavour (and indentity for that matter) these days as we tend to believe that we are divisible into separate mental, physical or spiritual components when, in fact, we are an indivisible whole, every facet of ourselves inextricable from the whole.  It is impossible to take part in any activity which is solely physical, intellectual, spiritual etc.  To be an Olympian (by definition) means to aspire to godliness, to be superhuman in every facet of our being.  The ancient games used to include contests of poetry, singing, theatre and so forth, recognising that intellectual endeavour is really no less part of what makes a supreme athlete than how far you can hurl a discus or how fast you can run for a bus.  The modern Olympics has lost sight of this somewhat and is all the poorer for it.

Yes, you can be shit. AT SPORT.

Is this forum a sport who is chess

tigerswiftly wrote:

My definition is perfect.

No.

igorgetmeabrain wrote:

tigerswiftly wrote:

My definition is perfect.

No.

You think a game you can play by mail is a sport.

So shush your jabberlips.

Congrats on the medal Kow.

igorgetmeabrain wrote:

we are an indivisible whole, every facet of ourselves inextricable from yada yada The ancient games used to include contests of poetry, singing, theatre and so forth, recognising that intellectual endeavour is really no less part of what makes a supreme athlete than how far you can hurl blah blah blah.

Right but things can be categorised by the things that make them unique. Saying everything is the same by finding commonalites is pointless. Sport is a way of categorising the physical aspect of all the qualites youre going on about.

Your Kasparov anecdote is weak as well. A medical student I knew used to go to the gym for a couple of hours everyday while he was cramming. Some theory about oxygenating the brain or something. So exams are sport.

It's like saying I would only watch Total Wipeout on the condition it introduces a modern interpretive dance element.

The Olympics don't don't decide what is and is not a sport - They just decide what the Olympics recognize as a sport for the purposes of the event. And then elect not to ever include the 'sports' that aren't really sports but they said were sports so they could make money off of their organizing bodies.

Possibly.

EDIT: I'm just arguing the point to be a fuck, tbh. I'd never want to watch Chess at the Olympics though. Ugh.