The defending champion said he quit as a “matter of principle” after being told to change his jeans.
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Maintaining fashion standards (nb: hygiene is a separate issue) in an intellectual contest is so fucking stupid. Who decided jeans were less formal than khakis anyway?
Chess wants to maintain an air of elitism.
I could absolutely see a dresscode being enforced heavily if it was seen by the opponent during the match, then a choice of color or style could be done to mess with the opponent, but they sit at a table, the opponent can’t see his pants, as long as the pants would be acceptable for an IT guy in an office, they should be acceptable here
if it was seen by the opponent during the match, then a choice of color or style could be done to mess with the opponent
Somehow I doubt a loud tie is banned. This is just arbitrary shit made up by petty tyrants.
I’ve worked IT jobs that require khakis and it’s equally stupid and pointless.
as long as the pants would be acceptable for an IT guy in an office
Jeans aren’t acceptable attire at any place I’ve done IT work for.
I work in finance IT and have never had any complaints about jeans.
Wow I never had a comment about any clothing in my IT jobs and I just wear whatever I would otherwise, almost always jeans in some form for the lower body. Graphic tees, band shirts etc quite often as well. I’d hate to work in a that stuck up environment.
That’s wild. Can’t remember a job I was not working in jeans… usually had a polo but other than that, pretty informal.
The dress code is designed to ensure fairness and professionalism sounds like school officials saying we take the safety of our students very seriously whenever they’ve done something really stupid.
Relevant links:
- FIDE statement regarding Magnus Carlsen’s dress code breach
- Statement by FIDE President on dress-code rules for Rapid and Blitz Championships
- FIDE dress code
Emphasis on the third link, on what’s not allowed: sneakers, jeans, t-shirts. Under the claim that it’s “to maintain the high standards of the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships”… yeah, nah, non sequitur.
And more importantly it shows that the dress code in question is NOT about decency, or preventing cheating, or not distracting other players; it’s all about “if you dress casually we’re going to be assumptive trash and assume that you don’t take the competition seriously.” No wonders Carlsen walked away from it.
The NBA requires players to suit up when arriving at a game. Some MLB teams require pretty strict dress codes (famously the Yankees and facial hair).
Organized sports can be weird to say the least.
Note: since I don’t watch basketball or baseball, I had to dig for further info. As such take what I say with a grain of salt.
…they sound equally as silly and arbitrary as FIDE’s dress code. In special, apparently the NBA dress code (when arriving at a game, as you said; inside the game it’s another can of worms) was created to target hip hop clothing, associating it with crime; this is clearly prejudice.
Did he shit himself or something? What was wrong with the jeans he was wearing?
Knows the rules shows up in jeans and is asked to change. He decides to leave…lol really shows his character! Also got upset and quit when the American beat him…
Not gonna change my pants. Vandals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBlPyWIjBFs
What a blunder from the champ.
Edit: This is the most simultaneously upvoted and downvoted comment I have had on Lemmy. It appears that so far that more than half of voters either missed the “blunder” chess joke or they got the joke and audibly groaned. Understandable either way.
Lol. I am getting down voted to hell for a cheesy chess pun.
Too much drama with this guy…
I’m not into chess, I’m into pool, and when people like this guy make noise around pool instead of shooting pool matches fair and square, I stop watching.
Same reason I stopped watching John McEnroe tennis matches back in the days: I’m interested in the sport, not the drama.
If wearing jeans is the worst drama he is part of he seems like a great guy.
Lol what? Its the other way around. He just showed up normal and they made a big deal about nothing
It is NOT the other way around.
He chose to enter a tournament whose organizers impose a dress code, without complying with the dress code.
The dress code is silly perhaps and has nothing to do with chess. But if he didn’t like it, all he had to do is not participate.
I know fellow pool players who regularly forgo some venues on the circuit because they’re forced to dress in a certain way that’s to restrictive to movements around the table in their eyes and that’s fine. Their tournament, their rules.
I find this take fascinating because, although I also like watching athletes and sports, I see the fandom and names as a huge soap opera cast. I just can’t keep up with any of it, the names, the injuries, the rivalries, the trades. It’s all just a bunch of banal meaningless drama to me that I will never have the enthusiasm to track. It’s all the same old shit from season to season with a rotating cast of hot young fools, just like General Hospital. As such I can’t talk sports with people. I can watch, but the events wash over me without the same meaning or substance. For that reason, flamboyant and over-the-top drama (like hot tempers, trash talking, and general mischief) that happens during play is actually interesting as long as it isn’t too unsportsman-like and doesn’t interfere with the game too much. The soap opera drama is boring, the sports is interesting, but the performance and affectations are spicy.
To be clear, your take is totally valid and I’m not really critical of it at all. I just have a different perspective.
Listen, poindexter, nobody gives a shit about your snobby thoughts on chess.
PR bullshit. It’s not a new rule, he did this to get people to pay attention to some other tournament that no-one would have given a shit about otherwise.
