Is Online Chess a video game?

Hi guys. I have a record of not playing video games, but some of my friends are joking that I am playing a video game by playing chess on Chess.com. What are your opinions. is Online Live Chess a video game?

Yes, it is a game played in a video = video game.

Some people say chess is a sport, then it could be named videosport too.

Hi Stephen, 

I realize that I still owe you an answer from yesterday - how to get to 2000...

So here's what I can tell you:

1) Love the game

2) Want to get better

3) Play games with challenging opponents

4) Try to understand what happened in the game after it's over - try to identify turning points in the game - where things suddenly didn't go so well, or when you suddenly felt great. Try to understand what caused those turning points. 

5) Notice common denominators between turning points in several of your games - recognize some weakness(es) in your play. Strive to eradicate them. Notice your mental failings from actual games and strive to repair them. 

6) Ask many questions. Find strong players and ask them questions about your games, about your openings, about general things that you don't understand, about notes in books that you don't understand. 

7) Watch strong players play. Ask them questions too (within reason, and while showing due respect to their superior skills)

8) Choose books and materials that inspire you, that are fun to read and that can teach you something - everything will do - annotated games, works on the endgame, tactical drills and tests, chess videos

9) Be happy with more modest accomplishments. Be happy when you make 1250, 1300 and 1400. Don't frustrate yourself by immediately wanting to reach 2000.

10) Watch 1600 players play. Appreciate their knowledge and expertise and learn from them too. Ask them questions too - and see when THEY come short on answers...

11) Try to analyze with strong players, observe how they think, how they approach a position - what is important to them and what isn't. 

You will make 2000, if you persist long enough. Long enough may be twenty years - or it may be two years. You will see how far and how fast you will go - and before I forget - 

12) Join a chess club. There are many strong players in chess clubs, and many people are generous in advice. There are also coaches and lessons available - and these can accelerate your progress by much. 

Thanks so much. I am sorry about suggesting a move that time I was watching your game. 

Yeah, that was a bit out of place... 

I dindt mean it to be offensive. or rude

Originally a "video game" was meant to say a game that only exists on video, like PacMan or Space Invaders.

Yes it's just like video games. Just because chess is played without a computer doesn't mean it is different from video games.
If you compare chess to some competitive video game it is very similar. Take games like counter strike(or other competitive FPS), dota 2 (and Dota clones), or Civilization games. They are very similar because you acquire a set of skills overtime and you get a statistically measurable rating showing your wins and loses over time. Turn based games like Civilization and other 4x genre games are closest to chess because you take turns and you have to take into account many variables when making a move. In fact I'd say Civ is better than chess because it involves unknown variables and it has random outcome generation when you fight someone.

Chess is like video games is also because the desire to play chess or video games is from the same human drive to explore and to hunt. Chess and video games are an abstract replacement of hunting or a competitive task that is present in people instinctually.

Chess is better in some ways for one because it has many more people playing the same "map" like in video games where you get many maps. All ages and people from all countries play chess. There is the advantage of literature written about chess too.

But you know, if you are addicted to playing video games all day obviously it is bad for you. If you play chess all day it is as bad for you as playing video games all day.

Online bullet is certainly a video game. Slower games not so much.

I think it is.....  Under the genre of strategy games right? 

+1

 

It depends on your own views.

 

We treat online chess (or pretty much anything screen) as video game WRT our son.  So he's got to earn stars in order to play.

   No. You don't think when you play video games.

I say no. My youngest son and my students at the university where I teach a course in the history of technology say yes. Who's right?

Well, I'm never wrong.

Is 15 inc 10 chess a video game?

Obviously not, what kind of silly question is that. 30 second chess is the only video game on this platform

no

 

 

I don’t think when I play bullet, and too often don’t while playing slower chess.

If you look at elite players in most video games, they are using their brains as much as they are using their reflexes. A few years ago I became friends with a top woman PvP shooter player (yes, they exists, yes, they are rare) and she was trying to coach me on how to become better. Shooting straight and fast reflexes are important, but so is positioning, knowing when to push, knowing how to collapse, knowing when to run, and knowing how to predict what your opponent is likely to do next. What separates the good from the great is strategy and tactics, not just pointing and shooting fast. Bullet chess is very similar. It's about making quick decisions, having quick reflexes, and making good decisions under pressure. Like for good video game players the game "slows down" whereas both are complete chaos for less competent players. I'd definitely say that bullet is similar to a video game.

I have a guy friend who loves turn-based online strategy games. I know nothing about them, but I understand from his ramblings that they a lot more about thinking and have very little to do with reflexes. I don't know from first-hand experience, but I suspect that those aren't all that different from classical chess in the way they are played and the skills they require.