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Don't you think to be considered a "sport" there needs to be an element of physical aptitude? Poker and chess are both games of skill, but I wouldn't call them

Don't you think to be considered a "sport" there needs to be an element of physical aptitude? Poker and chess are both games of skill, but I wouldn't call them sports.

yreg 7y ago
In a this ESPN article on Fabiano Caruana, they noted "In October 2018, Polar, a U.S.-based company that tracks heart rates, monitored chess players during a tournament and found that 21-year-old Russian grandmaster Mikhail Antipov had burned 560 calories in two hours of sitting and playing chess -- or roughly what Roger Federer would burn in an hour of singles tennis." https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmasters-magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-lose-weight-playing-chess https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/27593253/why-grandmaste... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#1873%E2%80%931945:_Birth_of_a_sport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#1873%E2%80%931945:_Birth...
- lobotryas 7y ago
  That doesn’t address OP’s point at all.
dumbfoundded 7y ago
The line is pretty arbitrary. This is an article about e-sports. Play with the semantics if you will.