দাবাকে কি খেলা বলা যায়?
Translated by:
Hm...ne znam kako da odgovorim na ovo pitanje,zaista :) Šah svrstavaju u sport,znam da ga Međunarodni olimpijski komitet priznaje kao sport. Ali ima onih koji ga ne smatraju sportom i oko te teme se vode večite debate. Sa jedne strane,umna aktivnost(što je slučaj kod šaha) može vrlo često biti mnogo teža nego fizička aktivnost. A opet,sa druge strane,ova grupa koja šah ne svrstava u sport čini to upravo iz razloga što nema prisutne fizičke aktivnosti. Moram da budem iskrena i da kažem da ja ipak spadam u ovu drugu grupu :)
Bez obzira na sve,volela bih da naučim da igram šah. Znam samo neka osnovna pravila i ništa više.
ব্যক্তিগতভাবে আমি দাবাকে একটি খেলা মনে করব। অনেক "শারীরিক ক্রীড়া" এর জন্যও কৌশল, চতুর চিন্তাভাবনা ইত্যাদির প্রয়োজন হয়, ঠিক যেমন দাবাতে।
Also, I think it depends on the culture too. For example, sports in Bengali is called "খেলা", which can be used for board games and video games too. But sports in Chinese is "体育运动", which translates to "movement of the body".
I think because of the concentration and training regime required, chess is considered a sport. I think it is more similar to esports than what are commonly regarded as sports. The latter have a physical, fitness element that people who say a sport has to have a physical component use to discredit esports and chess as sports.
I think to have a strong mind, discipline and skills, you need to do some sort of training to be able to sustain some long periods of focused concentration... So there is a part of physical activity required in mind sports too.
There is a documentary, called Mind Games - The Experiment in which they take mind sports athletes (esports, Chess, Mahjong and memory games) and have them go through a physical training regime to see the effect on their skills. All of them see improvement, so I think both are linked.
Then again, I've played chess and video games since I was very young so I'm a little bias :)