22-10-2012, 11:28 AM
lol Adam - I like that idea. Could also call out the Congress titles the player holds, as well as their winning record when they take their seat; all followed - of course - by a: "let's get ready to rumble!!!".
Steve, the fifth hour of playing Chess doesn't make me any more physically tired than the first hour did. I am mentally more tired by the fifth hour, but that's a mental stamina issue rather than a physical stamina one. There is almost no physical element with being good at Chess. If there was then all the best Chess players would be slim and physically very fit, which - ironically - seems to be the opposite of true. I'm not suggesting that being physically fit wouldn't help, it probably would - but not nearly as much as being well practised at sitting and concentrating for six hours would.
So anyone can clasify Chess as a sport all they like; but - as Hugh suggested - it doesn't make the average guy on the street see it that way, and for perfectly obvious reasons. When I tell people I play Chess, the first thing they say is not: "ooh you must be fit".
Steve, the fifth hour of playing Chess doesn't make me any more physically tired than the first hour did. I am mentally more tired by the fifth hour, but that's a mental stamina issue rather than a physical stamina one. There is almost no physical element with being good at Chess. If there was then all the best Chess players would be slim and physically very fit, which - ironically - seems to be the opposite of true. I'm not suggesting that being physically fit wouldn't help, it probably would - but not nearly as much as being well practised at sitting and concentrating for six hours would.
So anyone can clasify Chess as a sport all they like; but - as Hugh suggested - it doesn't make the average guy on the street see it that way, and for perfectly obvious reasons. When I tell people I play Chess, the first thing they say is not: "ooh you must be fit".