chess players?

[HappyScrappy]

http://www.austin360.com/shared-cgi...46.AP-Chess-Olympics.story&menu=National.html

 

[Kryp2o]

Chess . . . an Olympic Sport.

It's official . . . the Olympics are soooooo gay.

 

[thefantom1]

Chess is the greatest War games ever.......... Me against you...... until you die or concede......... I love the game..

 

[HappyScrappy]

Chess is the greatest War games ever.......... Me against you...... until you die or concede......... I love the game..

so's tiddelywinks

 

[Kryp2o]

I usualy find that a good game of Connect Four as great meditative value to soothe my psyche. That or a good game of Twister with myself and a mirror.

 

[pauly]

Connect Four was the best. That and Guess Who, and Clue, and Battleship, and Monopoly. Oh, yeah, and Hungry Hungry Hippos.

 

[§äñît¥ Pôí§ðñ]

that is crazy...

 

[WarriorPL]

its fun if you're bored outta your mind and have too much time on your hands, but thats why these boards were created.. lol

 

[absolute hardgainer]

Being a nationally rated chess player myself I don't think that chess ought to be an olympic sport.

The Olympic Games should only include athletic sports, not mental sports. Chess is a mental sport. Furthermore FIDE, the organization that is pushing to have chess included still has too many internal problems. Gary Kasparov, arguably the best chess player in the world refused to defend his FIDE world champion title because of these problems long ago.

If it matters to anyone, I think bodybuilding is an athletic sport worthy of Olympic inclusion. But then we have a real issue about what to do with the drugs...

hardgainer (my two cents)

 

[Imnotdutch]

If you are going to say that only athletic sports can be included then you would have to remove many of the "sports" currently included in the games. Some people would also argue that bodybuilding isnt particularly athletic.....and the judging is very subjective which could be a problem.

Personally I think the Olympic Games isnt what it used to be. The games are now about cash.....if you have enough of it you are in.

Being a nationally rated chess player myself I don't think that chess ought to be an olympic sport.

The Olympic Games should only include athletic sports, not mental sports. Chess is a mental sport. Furthermore FIDE, the organization that is pushing to have chess included still has too many internal problems. Gary Kasparov, arguably the best chess player in the world refused to defend his FIDE world champion title because of these problems long ago.

If it matters to anyone, I think bodybuilding is an athletic sport worthy of Olympic inclusion. But then we have a real issue about what to do with the drugs...

hardgainer (my two cents)