Darts
I think this might be the answer
Curling.
Magic: the Gathering
It’s a sport if it was on ESPN!
Do I have to me good at it or is someone just going to pay me to do it regardless? I guess motorsport
Online Chess is now officially Esport… so that… xD
I’d be the next Hikaru Nakamura, live stream chess stuff and act cool af.
Snooker.
This or marbles
This was my first thought. Honourable mentions to golf and darts.
Chess
Are we calling chess a sport? In that case why not magic the gathering or black jack
MtG is pay to win these days (by virtue of the series shifts to crazier or more collectible cards) and blackjack is designed to be RNG hell. Why subject yourself to either of those?
I read something about how some grandmasters think so hard that they burn as many calories as pro athletes. Their brains are going so wild that it can cause extreme fatigue and the shakes.
The post said that you’d be forced to play the sport till 65, not that you need to be good at it, I’ll have a long career of losing matches then lol
Sounds like a alpha version of a Mentat.
I figure that if you can drink and smoke while you play it without any real impairment of performance, it’s not a sport. It’s a game.
I thought that up to annoy golfers, but honestly I think it’s a fair yardstick.
As a stoner mtg player, some people can drink and smoke while playing. Some people start taking twenty minute turns
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That’s a pretty dumb measurement. Tons of people get in the zone when high. I’m way better at soccer after getting high.
Sport should be a physical thing. If you can play the same game online (chess) then it’s not a sport.
Esport? Sure. Still not a sport, same way an email isn’t a piece of mail.
Bowling
Golf.
The sensible choice.
When you retire, you go play randomly at courses & clean up on friendly wagers. That way you can stay fluid in retirement.
Swimming.
Ranked Competitive Sex.
You don’t wanna go up against the world heavyweight champion
Its okay, thats my weight class
Disc Golf!
Hear hear!
Archery
Foxy Boxing
Finally, a person of culture.
Marion Tinsley died at age 68 while still holding the World Checkers Championship. A number of chess players including Ivanchuk and Anand are in their 50s and still might strong, but probably not WC strength.
Isn’t checkers solved? I guess it wasn’t back then, but it’s not exactly repeatable now.
At that time it wasn’t solved and it was unknown whether Chinook was at Tinsley’s level. Now it’s solved in the sense that a humongous computer search has proved it to be a draw, but there is still competition between humans. Chess is generally believed to be a draw too. A mathematical or computer proof of that wouldn’t change things very much though. The best way to beat another human might involve playing into positions that are lost for you, if you can get into a complex enough position to confuse your opponent into a mistake.
My brother and I would tie checkers every time if we were paying attention.
It’s basically like ticktacktoe. You have to be unaware of like 3 moves to lose.
I’m not a checkers player but really strong players do win games against each other. Also it was 8x8 checkers that was solved. Human competitive play is sometimes 10x10 which is probably beyond current technology to solve the same way. Tinsley played 8x8 though.
Yeah TIL in order not to be stuck moving your last piece before the other player, you need to make a smart sacrifice then force the other player into running out of moves or pieces first.
