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I've always found chess egregiously boring. The first time I played was when I was like 5, against my dad. The second time I was 15, against the top player in my chess club, who nearly cried because he lost. I really had no idea what I was doing, it was like here and checkmate. I always considered it a child's game, where the loser is the idiot schoolyard bully who stands up, punches the nerd in the face, and wins.

Though it might apply more to chessboxing.

The comic in question is "Cold Equator" (Froid Equateur) from Enki BIlal. He's French comic book artist and filmmaker of Serbian origins.

At least in the World Chess Boxing organization website, they give proper credit to the guy (with photos and all).

The comic is very good too, part of the Nikopol trilogy. Check it out.

should have gone with Chess Boxing instead. that would have been awesome.

The task of the WCBO is to train people in the no. 1 thinking sport and the no. 1 fighting sport, and in the combination of both. In the future new training methods will be developed in cooperation with experts from both sport worlds, sport scientists and neurologists.

One of the goals of this new sport is the old ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body: mens sana in corpore sano. During a chessboxing fight the control of aggression plays a big role. That's why WCBO's motto is: "Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board".

It's no less strange than Chess Boxing!

http://site.wcbo.org/content/index_en.html

What, for instance, does he mean by "the skill"? All but the most primal sports demand multiple skills, some physical, some not. Maybe one should take 2) to mean "at least one of the skills relevant to the game is physical." In that case, chess boxing, in which competitors engage in pugilism and speed chess in alternate rounds, makes the cut.

Competition:
Two or more participants (individuals or teams) strive to produce some mutable attribute which can be used for comparisons (determining who won). Your best X in Y. I.e. you cannot (generally) make a 'competition' out of how tall you are, but you can make a 'competition' out of who runs the fastest because you can choose to improve or change your performance in the latter.

Game:
A competition which involves BOTH interference and strategy. Strategy being your intended action and those of your opponents (the key here is an intentional plan to ensure victory) along with changes that are made to your strategy during the game, if the rules game permit. Interference being your ability to DIRECTLY PREVENT your opponent from winning. The 4x400 relay is NOT a game, it is a competition. Chess is a game because your can choose (strategy) play that affects your opponents ability to win. You do not need to be able to ensure your own victory, but that is always a nice bonus.

Sport:
Any game in which you can, within the normal rules of the game physically injure your opponent. Of course the ability to hurt your opponent doesn't have to be a normal way of playing the sport and instead be mostly coincidental (e.g. Football), but it could be if one wanted to (e.g. Kickboxing). Ability to hurt oneself is optional, but encouraged. Some may say that one can have a situation which is not a game (i.e. no strategy & interference), but unless you can a) plan to hurt someone, and b) hurt them, you can't have a sport.

Given those rules, let's look at some examples.

• Sprinting Competition
• Football Sport
• Chess Game
• Chessboxing Sport http://www.wcbo.org/
• NASCAR Sport
• Drag Racing Competition
• Fencing Game
• Dueling Sport
• Turtle Racing Competition
• Stock Market Game
• Rock Climbing none (unless you're playing 'who can climb up the fastest, in which case it's just like a sprint)
• Math Game or Competition (depending upon the rules, however if there is no strategy, then you have either Competition or just parallel play)
• Ballroom Dancing Competition
• Gymnastics Competition

As a rule of thumb, if the competitors don't have to be in the same place as each other (or their proxy) then you cannot have a Sport. If the players do not need to even be aware of each other (in reality or virtually), then you most certainly do not have a Game.

E.g. you could have a bowling tournament with each player in their own private facility without any real difference. And don't give me any crap about 'psyching out' the competitor. Therefore it is a competition (who can knock the most pins down).