Chess is not an art

Is it the bassoon thing?

...and don't forget everyones favorite, the old American pie...

Well, I can only do brain surgery on weekends, out back in my garage. So it's really just more of a hobby for me.

were you quoting Dahmer? or Hannibal Lecter

Hey!

Just because I drowned my poor mother in a bathtub full of milk and Fruit Loops doesn't make me a cereal killer!

chess is an art. gardening is an art. Picking your nose is an art. And don't forget the art of farting. Being an art isn't really such a big deal nowadays.

Is chess a fine art... no.

regarding the first page of this thread, right brain/left brain is psuedoscience and people can imagine anything that is physically possible, so that connection between chess and music is pretty weak.

Chess doesn't really imitate life. how can your relay an emotion through a chess game (without annotations saying, "I was eager...")Another difference between an art and a game is rules. Chess has rules, where if you break them, it's not chess anymore. What artform has rules? Name one, anybody.

Well, you have to paint something for it to be a painting.

Chess is an art as long as you can breathe life into it. Whether or not your work of art is a good one, well...and can't some concepts/pursuits be both art and science? Isn't the universe in a sense a work of art?

yeah, but there's the rules on how to paint.

like, i wouldn't consider that a rule so much as a definition.

so ... so .. how can I put this ...creating a baby, are both parents the artists? SIs the baby the work of art, or is the performance... oh .. nevermind.