What is chess??

3,4,5, is so cliche for god's sake

my answer is 2,1

As for me it's the way to kill time while chating with girls. Some are thinking for 500 years to response.

5 2 1 3 4
mostly procrastination

What is chess? ♫ baby don't hurt me ♫, don't hurt me, no more... ♪
What is chess? ♫ baby don't hurt me ♫, don't hurt me, no more... ♪

Only 2 and 3 and competition and intellectual activity/exercise. It is leisure and it is art (I know a guy that makes problems only, never plays games, so for him it is only art), but never sport, because what defines sport is that the movements have to be done by you. Chess is intellectual activity and exercise but not sport, because you can play it in your mind only, even without the board, while other person makes the moves in the board for you.

A way to kill time while chating with girls.

chess is the game of kings, and gentlemen.
it is one of the oldest and most played by royalty in the history of the world.

also if you think that chess is "a way to kill time while chatting with girls"
you are dead wrong.

... don't hurt me ♫♪
don't hurt me...
no more ♫♪

Cue Maurice Ashley dancing along to GM Haddaway at the Millionaire Chess Afterparty.