Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Rapid and Blitz Championship for violating the FIDE dress code and wearing jeans. The chess legend said that he was 'tired' of FIDE and revealed that he was asked to change his jeans., Sports News - Times Now
And in no moment the text mentions why there’s a dress code on first place. That’s because, for FIDE, it boils down to bureaucrats babbling about tradition, and power-tripping over it, to make chess as exclusionary as possible.
In the meantime, a sensible dress code makes sure that no participant dresses in a way that makes other participants uncomfortable. People in their undergarments is a no-go, but dressing casually like Carlsen did? It’s completely fine dammit.
Bloody muppets. And props to Carlsen - he sacrificed his participation in that championship to highlight this idiocy.
Here’s what FIDE says about this. TL;DR “it’s tradition from times when you played chess while running from velociraptors”.
And in no moment the text mentions why there’s a dress code on first place. That’s because, for FIDE, it boils down to bureaucrats babbling about tradition, and power-tripping over it, to make chess as exclusionary as possible.
In the meantime, a sensible dress code makes sure that no participant dresses in a way that makes other participants uncomfortable. People in their undergarments is a no-go, but dressing casually like Carlsen did? It’s completely fine dammit.
Bloody muppets. And props to Carlsen - he sacrificed his participation in that championship to highlight this idiocy.