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An athletic activity with objective scoring. There's no physicality in chess. Therefore it's not a sport
The entire concept of watching anything is dumb by this logic >

I don't think so.  Some things you can enter into a lot better during spectating than others.  Watching a chess match for example.  You can literally calculate every single thing that the players at the board can (leaving aside difference in skill). >

Chess is a sport though.... >

Board games aren't sports >

what constitutes a "sport" to you?