A real sport?

[Tannhauser]

Originally Posted by 5kgLifter

Well, if it helps any, the Oxford definition of sport also covers skill which I guess would apply to archery, chess and such.

If I see 'chess and 'sport' in the same sentence, I start bleeding from the eye. It just happened there. I can hardly see what I'm tuyping. Oops. There are are a few exceptions, however.

This is OK:

Chess is not a sport

and

There's no way chess is a sport. It just isn't.

[I understand that you're not claiming chess is a sport, just discussing the definition, but it still makes my eye bleed. And there goes the other one.]

[Tannhauser]

Originally Posted by ricka182

In my brains dictionary :

Sport: Noun : [spohrt] -

An athletic event requiring direct competition from other humans, and not subject to human judging.

Boxing?

[5kgLifter]

Originally Posted by Tannhauser

If I see 'chess and 'sport' in the same sentence, I start bleeding from the eye. It just happened there. I can hardly see what I'm tuyping. Oops. There are are a few exceptions, however.

LOL, if it helps, they have Chess-Boxing Now there's a sport!


Youtube search it if you haven't yet seen it, it's funny.

[IronManlet]

Originally Posted by Tannhauser

If I see 'chess and 'sport' in the same sentence, I start bleeding from the eye. It just happened there. I can hardly see what I'm tuyping. Oops. There are are a few exceptions, however.

This is OK:



and



[I understand that you're not claiming chess is a sport, just discussing the definition, but it still makes my eye bleed. And there goes the other one.]

Did you happen to lose a match to a Grandmaster or something? haha

[ricka182]

Originally Posted by Tannhauser

Boxing?

good call... especially seeing as boxing judges aren't exaxctly free of controversey..

But if they would just knock each other out in a fury of padded fist violence, judges would just be ornamental, and the crowd would be in awe, of the awesomeness.