Is chess a sport or game?

Sadly for your dictionary, Chess is a recognized sport by the International Olympic Committee with FIDE being the recognized International Sports Federation for chess since June 1999. And for the crossword part, solving crossword puzzles doesnt require strategy nor any kind of preparation and lacks anything thing to call it a sport. Following your train of thought then scratching my butt would be a sport because im phisically exerting my arm right?--If the brain is considered a muscle and can be trained like any other muscle, Then why if chess lets you train said muscle why can it be a sport?? not everything is about biceps,triceps and such.

Maybe that's more what Pandolfini would have liked Fischer to find than what Fischer himself found. :-) But Tal said that chess is first of all art, and Kasparov said something similar, while Spassky said that "chess is a game" and Lasker said "chess is only a game and not to be classed with science or the arts" so opinions differ also among the greatest.

the brain a muscle?

Not that it is, i said considered a muscle. It is considered because of similarities between them althought it is an organ. The brain can be trained and there are various kinds of excersises for it which make it develop the trained area and there are others which help deter brain tissue decay. here are som of those excersises if you want to take a look at them.

http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/exercise.html

Maybe one should look up what the definition of sport is.

Sport is generally recognised as activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition,^[3] and other organisations such as the Council of Europe using definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification as sports.^[2] However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, actvities claim recognition as mind sports. The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports,^[4][5] although limits the amount of mind games which can be admitted as sports.

And i should take your mindset just because you and two other people of your thinking are going to make a video?? these days that means squat anyone can get 2 or more friends to make a video and call it a "documentary", yet it is just that, the opinion of a group of people. Mixed martial arts and others might be sports but that does not make them "olympic sports", for that you need some requirements that you can (if you'd like) look up in the olympic charter, especially in mma theres no sportmanship whatsoever its just more like dog fights but with humans.

what do you know about mma and sportsmanship?

Sorry, but I can do what I want

Not to worry, you can though but if you check to post's time you will see I was  addressing to the previous post. I do mma myself for years coming from judo to grappling and kick boxing to boxing, finally combining the lot and there is more sportmanship to find in mma than in chess and that's for sure.

lol...sounds pretty random to me. 

 I competed in both the NCAA Judo Championships and the New York Open Chess Tourney.  Both contests seemed rather sporting to me.

MEEP.

everybody stop trying to be smart-a$$es and accept the fact that chess is a game.

Maybe it comes down to the club, the country, the induvidual but at full contact sports I havent had the awkwardness of not greeting, nor have i had the insults like on chess.com, nor have I seen sulky faces after a training session or match, nor the problems of respect between the belts while at chess many high rated players do feel superior to the lower rated players but that's a different subject and all.