Like early days Olympics – where they celebrated those skills in a ‘universal’ competition.

They did not play chess, that’s a fact.

You’re right. I’m an athlete and also a chess teacher, I love chess but at the moment that chess is considered a sport a lot of other things come together and you cant more say that, for example, fighting cancer (if the rule is “don´t die”) is a sport. The oxford dictionary defined very well what is a sport.

Still, it does not improve your body confidence, your muscle strength, your physical agility, nor your energy to do things like running. Interms of mental activity, for me at least, only increase your ability of rationalizing(forcing rationality on others in your mind). And honesty, saying “mental activity is considered as physical activity” is like saying “the walls are floors too because they are connected”

He is talking about “how would you move your arm, hand, and fingers” not “place the pieces on the board based on what you have in mind”