Here’s one for the too dumb to believe file. Los Angeles Daily News sports editor Kevin Modesti, while gushing about Bobby Fisher, thinks chess should be classified as a sport.

It certainly had all the best elements of a sport in the summer of 1972. Unless you’re one of those who judge sports by mundane things like running, jumping and throwing, while ignoring the grander gifts of national pride, inspiration and personality.

Playing piano, which requires actual physical coordination, also can engender national pride, etc. Consider Van Cliburn…

…an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, when at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War.

Nobody sought to redefine piano as a sport.