Sport must Involve Strong Physical Movement, How about Chess?

 

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According to UNESCO, sport is every bodies activity such a game that contains the struggle against nature, others, and ourselves. The struggle should contain physical and mental activity. Physical activity involve strong movement process and body endurance. Then, mental activity should contain toughness to survive and become the best participants. If we look that definition, so it include the sport like individual sport such as boxing, swimming, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), and teamwork sport such as soccer and basketball.

How about chess, one of individual sports? Altough chess was official sport, I often hear people say that chess was inappropriate called sport until now because it didn't involve strong physical movement. It only about think and think activity. Move the chest piece was not strong physical movement. Chess didn't take a lot of sweat. But, there was opinion against it. Think activity is part of brain sport. Practice brain skill for many hours in one professional chess match needs physical strength. I see that one professional chess match spend 6 hours. Chess learn about individual strategy to win the game with many plans. In my opinion, in chess match, if we have a bad physique, mood, patience, and mental, we will lose the game easily. So, before the match, we must keep our fitness. All of it was become element of sport. I agree and pro about chess was a sport, but I respect the people who disagree with that.

At first glance, chess is like an esports (online game), requiring special preparation beforehand, both physically and mentally. There is a spirit of competition (healthy competition), fair play, and sportsmanship (admitting defeat and being humble for those who win). Even esports requires team work too.

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Do you agree about that quote? I'm netral hehe.. Garry Kasparov, world chess grandmaster said that chess is an art and not a spectator sport. He was dubious evidently about chess was a real sport. I think that quote explain that chess is not suitable for spectator who like adrenalinded pumped. It very bored. No yell, shout, and other attractive things from supporters like soccer, basketball, etc. But, that's where the art was. Chess match needs silence, patience, and applause for a different moment to support their idol athlete. Chess match needs high concentration and many plans to win the game. If the game was broadcast on television, it needs many ads running to resolve boredom as a result of a quiet in the match hehe..

When we play chess under pressure (not for entertainment, not for fun, but for carry the name of the country), so we will spend take a lot of sweat, because we are in tense condition. It remove a lot of fluids. The activity that remove a lot of fluids could be called sport. So, we have to look view of the whole part, not a half part, and sure that chess deserves to be called sport. Besude that, we must plan the certain exercise, not only physics, but also mental, before the match.

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