Do you consider chess a sport?

chess is a sport because you use a huge amount of physical energy when moving your hand to your mouse, to the new tab button, to type l-i-c-h-e-s-s-.-o-r-g, and so much more, it requires just so much physical energy.

@SlappyLove.
According to science, tomatoes are fruits.

All fruits have a single seed or many seeds inside and grow from the flower of a plant (2).

Like other true fruits, tomatoes form from small yellow flowers on the vine and naturally contain a multitude of seeds. These seeds can later be harvested and used to produce more tomato plants.

Interestingly, some modern varieties of tomato plants have been intentionally cultivated to stop producing seeds. Even when this is the case, a tomato is still considered to be the fruit of the plant in botanical terms.
Source: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/is-tomato-a-fruit#botanical-classification

Open newspaper: Chess? Sports section!

Case closed.

this begs the question is a seedless watermelon a fruit

It's a type of sport. You can define "sport" in different ways...

I believe that there are 2 categories where you can place a sport in. A “Physical Sport” category and a “mental sport” category. Chess obviously goes in the “mental sport category”. Therefore chess in a way is a sport. Case closed

"I'm doing a lot of sport to lose weight.
-Oh nice! What sports are you practicing?
-Only chess really."

@FC-in-the-UK

"I'm doing a lot of sport to lose weight.
-Oh nice! What sports are you practicing?
-Only chess really."

You don't lose weight shooting, be it guns or arrows. Still a sport.

Chess is most definitely a sport because it raises your heart rate.

When the Olympic committee accepted Curling as a new sport, the Curlers sold it by calling it "Chess On Ice".

So if you think that Curling is a sport because you slide across the ice effortlessly and do a little bit of housekeeping with a broom and not even raising your heart rate, then you would have to agree Chess should be an Olympic sport too.