Chess cards -- sports or nonsports?

Arazi4442 · #1 03-12-2022, 10:03 AM

I�ve always referred to them as sports cards. It is a competition between two sides.

Fun cards to try and find and relatively inexpensive too compared to the growth everywhere else.

(BTW, where�d you find the facechess Carlsen? Been looking for a replacement for a long time now)

nebboy · #2 03-12-2022, 10:16 AM

If there was ever any questions as to this issue it should be settled in the mind of youth of today with the advent of E-sports were Vidio games are considered a varsity sport in high school and you are able to earn your varsity sports letter in E-sports along with traditional sports.

D. Bergin · #3 03-12-2022, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nebboy

If there was ever any questions as to this issue it should be settled in the mind of youth of today with the advent of E-sports were Vidio games are considered a varsity sport in high school and you are able to earn your varsity sports letter in E-sports along with traditional sports.

Damn! Beat me to it.

Peter_Spaeth · #4 03-12-2022, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arazi4442

I’ve always referred to them as sports cards. It is a competition between two sides.

Fun cards to try and find and relatively inexpensive too compared to the growth everywhere else.

(BTW, where’d you find the facechess Carlsen? Been looking for a replacement for a long time now)

Years ago on ebay.

Is it hard to find now?

steve B · #5 03-18-2022, 12:00 PM

When I was younger I had a list of things that made something a sport.
A yes to any makes it a sport.

1 Does it involve a ball. (Shape doesn't matter)
2 does it involve hitting something with a stick?
3 do the competitors wear numbers?

* there may have been others designed specifically to include sports I liked, but I don't remember them.

Soccer? Sport
Figure skating? Not a sport. Or at least it wasn't until the whole Nancy Kerrigan thing.

sthoemke · #6 03-18-2022, 10:44 PM

If a horse played chess, would it be considered an athlete?

Arazi4442 · #7 03-19-2022, 09:37 AM

[QUOTE=sthoemke;2207063]If a horse played chess, would it be considered an athlete?[

Is Air Bud an athlete?

mikemb · #8 03-30-2022, 02:41 PM

I would not consider it a sport.

Question; Does anyone know if there was ever a card issued of a chess player named Anatoly Lein? Don't think he was very famous. I worked with his wife in the early 1980's. I know they both passed away about a week apart some 4 years ago.

No cards on Ebay.

Mike

ClementeFanOh · #9 03-31-2022, 04:45 AM

First, I am a long time chess player and amateur follower of chess. I also
own a handful of cool chess cards. Is chess a sport? NO. It's a skill- a heck of
a skill, but a skill. Want to make a golfer mad? Tell them it's not a sport (which
it isn't). Same for auto racing. GREAT skills, NOT sports though. Doesn't
devalue them either, just defines them. Blast away! Trent King

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