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• The Shadow

  

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  May 6, 2013 4:32 PM EDT

  Jet Li (actor) said that if poker and chess are considered sports why not gaming? Gamers have the same mentality as athletes.
  
  I completely agree with him. What do you think?
• Vazgen

  

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  May 6, 2013 4:36 PM EDT

  I agree. When there is some prize you compete for your mentality is the same as any other athlete's. You train hard, prepare for the tournament, always strive to become better etc. But that's true only in multiplayer games when you compete with others. Single-player games are just an escape for me, a way to break free of real life problems.

• TwistedOrthrus

  

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  May 6, 2013 4:51 PM EDT

  Sport: An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others.

  Game: A form of play or sport, esp. a competitive one played according to rules and decided by skill, strength, or luck.

  Gaming is not a sport, and neither is chess or poker. All of them require skill of some sort to do well at or become professionals at, but none of them need any physical exertion.

• Matt Feeney the New Guy

  

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  May 6, 2013 4:51 PM EDT

  LOL. Uhh, I guess, I'm an incredibly uncompetitive person (not boasting as it has some disadvantages) so I don't really have an athletic mindset of improving my playstyle or the such.

• Master Dread

  

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  May 6, 2013 4:53 PM EDT

  I cant agree totally since anyone can game but to be devoted to the sport you play, you have to be mentally hardened.

• Vazgen

  

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  May 6, 2013 4:59 PM EDT

  Well it's the classic definition of sport. Maybe after 10-15 years it'll change...

  But that's not the point. I think sport can be called any kind of activity that encourages healthy competition and requires some skill from the participants be it mental or physical. Sport shapes mentality and professional players that play at tournaments (less on local and more on international level) have that mentality. Sure anyone can game but to compete with professional players you need to commit yourself to a game.

• RuneRed

  

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  May 6, 2013 5:01 PM EDT

  I'm fairly decent at poker and chess, yet I cannot consider them a sport, at least for most people.  A sport to me, requires an amount of physical exertion.  That is not to say that a certain amount of physical stamina is not helpful in the games.  Former world chess champion Gary Kasparov's training regiment included physical activities such as running, swimming, football (soccer), and cycling; this was in addition to his chess studies.  There is no doubt that this physical activity helped his endurance at the board, and kept his mental energies fresh.   But, nevertheless, I can not consider chess, poker, or video gaming a sport in and of itself.

• Nikolaj Poulsen

  

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  May 6, 2013 6:11 PM EDT

  No.

• Dieter

  

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  May 6, 2013 6:26 PM EDT

  To me there are 2 kinds of sport. You have the classic physical sports, and the mental sports consisting mainly our of newer concepts but also older ones like chess, cardgames that are not based on random luck, classic boardgames that are not based on random luck, and videogames that require a certain amount of skill and intelligence to complete.

  Ps. Jet Li is amazing, I love his acting.

• Lozhar

  

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  May 9, 2013 11:04 AM EDT

  I Agree