Smaller amount of physical exertion in chess yes - not zero, if you watch players short on time or in speed chess, but maybe similar like you say for something like darts which is not about strength.

If someone accepts ruling out other 'sports' then the argument against chess as sport is stronger. Where it also wins though is against other sports that use 'judges' for the winner e.g. Ice skating rubbish, or even...boxing

Drunkovic

not the time for baseball Francisco!

you must be fishing, sitting down and pushing wood in a largely pre-arranged game is never a sport in a million years, it is just a game, at the top level, scripted for two thirds of it.  Even that aside, the fact you can agree a draw after a few moves which has happened many many times, means it's ruled out

Fran with an insane passing shot and Novak somehow gets a volley winner back.

If you ever played high level sport or very competitive chess, it's quite an experience (I've played to a mid-competition level myself nowhere near the greats and grandmasters.

It's an intense game, and can certainly feel quite physical at times in stess points after hours of play. Sure I'd agree it has a different quality to it, but so do many other 'sports'.

It has the intensity of 'sporting competition' for sure, just as much as many others, and more than some do IMO.

Anyway think I've said enough - I have been called away to eat while watching Djoko!

`for someone who claims they're 50/50 on it whether it's a sport or not, you do a good job of promoting it as a sport

You stand chess up, a board game, againt sports that tick every single box, then it's not, football had phsyical and mental stamina requirements, technical and tactical elements, chess has barely any phsyical requirements and you're really pusing the envelope now now talking about how much they sweat after a while sitting on their backsides to validate phsyicality chess has mental stamina but no real phsysical exertion and no technique, tactical yes, but no techniquem, no phyical prowess needed. Look at the state of some of these fatty's who play chess - and they can play until any age, is Kramik and Kasparov sportsman now, they're still playing albeit sporadically, but they could be full time if they wanted.

Cheers. I chopped at 1.2 quite a bit ago. Wanting Ruud to prevail next hopefully !

umpire from the other night would have given a warning for that.

well done Novak super believers. his body language during sets 3 and 4 didn't look great, but he turned it around...

Novak hasn't done anything against the rules but his opponents should be
wise to his regular episodes of unsportsmanlike behaviour. It is disrespectful.

caramba did you see Alize Lim cheering for Grigor last night? she looked very happy to see him victorious

Tony Parker and Alize broke up back in February. No-one posts these things here anymore.

they did? I thought they were still together!

most people watching Eurosport have no idea Lim was once a player, remember Mats even saying he'd never seen her play before.

also caramba, you probably know but no more Laura on ES for this RG, she's gone to Nottingham to assume her Tournament Director duties for the tournament there commencing next week

Family phorum, edy!