age shifts, I would prefer to say that chess is sport-like, but not a sport.Howard Goldowsky thinks otherwise, and in an initial post on the Boylston Chess Club's blog, he suggested that chess or any other activity is a sport if it meets two conditions, roughly:G1: It involves pattern recognition.G2: It involves timing. (Defined in a very broad sense.)I suggested that if G1 & G2 are jointly sufficient