If chess tournaments are considered gambling, then all sport where players are paid for their performance could be seen as gambling as well. There is an element of gambling in everything, including investments.
Does that mean that Christians should not purchase stocks because they are risking (aka gambling) money on the promise of possible future performance? I highly doubt that.
What separates chess from pure gambling is that chess is a game of skill, not luck. Yes there is an element of luck involved (lucky for you your opponent missed a clearly winning move), but that is also the case in daily life. Every decision we make involves risk, hence to some degree gambling. But true gambling is betting money on an outcome that is unpredictable and uncontrollable (the roll of dice or picking a card out of the deck).
Chess is a game of skill, as is tennis, golf, and boxing. While the outcomes are not always 100% predictable of any one match, the factors involved that determine the outcome are controllable and therefore somewhat more predictable than picking a card out of a deck or rolling dice.
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Winning in chess at its highest level (Grandmasters) is about taking RISKS in
order to achieve a winning position or increasing your chances for winning.
In this sense, you DO sort of gamble in order to win. You would have to be
an expert or a master (or at least a class A player) to fully understand what
I am referring to. Winning at chess is about taking risks and play subjectively
rather than objectively.
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