Quote Originally Posted by honeybee View Post
Well, let's look at it this way: While in the car, their only movements are with their hands (steering/pedal shifting/button pressing), feet (brake/accelerate), eyes and head. They want to spend time on workouts to keep them fit, obviously, during the race. I hope we have no confusion here.

While at chess, the players exercise their hands much more than those of the F1 drivers. You have to move the piece, press the clock and then write the move down. So in terms of amount of movement, chess beats F1. And you would be surprised to learn the fitness regime of Vishy Anand or even Garry Kasparov and most of the modern grandmasters.

Another question: Why is sitting in a chair for six hour or more not considered a physical activity? Is no effort required to keep the body in this posture?

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I would say that sport is a subset of game. A game has rules. A sport requires skill which means physical exertion. When you say F1, that is a game because you are competing with someone. But car driving is not a game. It is a sport. Basketball is a game because you always compete with some other team. Learning to dribble, dunk etc is a sport.

Baseball, Cricket, Football are sports, but their World series are games. If I jog, that is a sport, but if I compete in 100 mtrs, 400 mtrs etc, that is a game.

Same goes for Olympics. They are games and not sports because you are competing with others for medals etc.

And, I disagree that Chess has more physical movement than F1. In fact, F1 has more mental exercise and much more physical movement that chess.

There are rules for F1 like you cannot turn more than certain degree on this speed, you cannot overtake other car during this phase of track and so on. Synchronizing your hand movements, feet movements, and what your instructor is saying to you, and more importantly to point out constantly if you are not breaking any rules during any part of track is tad more difficult than what it appears. There are certain other rules, like height-weight ratio etc.

Chess on other hand, never required so much physical exertion. You can move around during a game if you wish. You can go for freshen up, have a drink (water of course, you geeks) or just move around but can't distract your opponent.

And mind you, if a dog comes up unexpectedly, F1 drivers have to pay attention and stop their cars without hurting the poor dog, who is already living a dog's life.