Because their argument wasn't "competitive gameplay is terrible for society", but "chess is bad". But even if it was the former argument: that's unquestionably

Because their argument wasn't "competitive gameplay is terrible for society", but "chess is bad". But even if it was the former argument: that's unquestionably false too. Just look at professional sports like soccer or Basketball. Surely you're not going to argue that this is bad...? Because that's fundamentally the same, just on a different topic