After Magnus Carlsen opted to tug out of the FIDE World Fast and Blitz Championship, the feud over costume code at chess occasions enforced by FIDE widened. One other participant, who’s enjoying on the World Fast and Blitz Championship in USA, accused chess’s world governing physique of forcing an underage lady to alter out of her denims.
After Carlsen’s exit from the glamorous year-end occasion at Wall Road in New York, American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura ran a ballot on X asking “Ought to each chess participant on the World Fast match in New York Metropolis put on denims tomorrow?”
To this, German grandmaster Elisabeth Paehtz replied: “FIDE pressured an underaged lady as we speak, sporting denims, to alter. The lady out of emergency took a shawl from her mom and wrapped it round her hips, changing into a kind of ‘skirt’ with bare legs…Final yr they weren’t strict to high gamers, this yr no less than nobody is above rule!”
Fide pressured an underaged lady as we speak, sporting a denims, to alter. The lady out of emergency took a shawl from her mom&wrapped it round her hips, changing into a kind of “skirt” with bare legs…Final yr they weren’t strict to high gamers, this yr no less than nobody is above rule!
— ElliPaehtz (@ElliPaehtz) December 28, 2024
Whereas the participant in query was not named, in one other tweet reply, Elisabeth Paehtz stated: “I’m not inventing it, and I noticed the lady in her new gray ‘scarf skirt’ with 0 tights on and I’m a part of the identical membership as her.”
It should be famous that the costume code for the occasion was made public by FIDE nicely earlier than the beginning of the glamorous occasion, so gamers can’t declare that the costume code was sprung on them out of blue.
Final yr, on the FIDE World Fast and Blitz Championship, Dutch grandmaster Anna Maja Kazarian was fined 100 Euros by FIDE for sporting sports activities sneakers. She ultimately modified her sneakers, however did level out that one other male participant was simply warned and never fined for a costume code breach.
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