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Chess Player Fined Over Her 'Sports Shoes'

www.newser.com Chess Player Fined Over Her 'Sports Shoes'

Dutch player Anna-Maja Kazarian was forced to change them, despite ambiguous dress code

On the spectrum of cheddar offenses, this is nothing

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When there’s a dress code to play chess, it’s time to find something else to do.
- Bruh there has always been a dress code to play chess...
  
  Then it’s always been time to find something else to do.
- Almost every professional sport has a uniform or dress code, what did you expect?
Wow that’s ridiculous.

Makes me think of how it’s nuts that women are forced to wear skirts in tennis still.
- Women were forced to wear all white at Wimbledon, including underwear... Until they finally got an exemption for women menstruating THIS YEAR! In fucking 2023. Absolutely ridiculous.
there's some confusion over FIDE's dress code.

Vague rules definitely serve a purpose.
- Vague rules are meant to be enforced arbitrarily. The whole point is to give the enforcers an excuse to penalize someone.
- vague rules exist to give jurisiction the abuility to make calls, however if the judges cannot even define what each type of shoe is, then the rule is useless.
  
  Certainly, although this is assuming the judge will act fairly. It could be that the judge just didn't like her, for whatever reason.
Well, at least she didn’t shit in the shower.

Apparently that’s a big no no in chess.
- That was a Xiangqi player. AFAIK, shitting in the shower is allowed in western chess.
  
  No no no in western chess you shit in an outhouse or on the open range. Shitting in the shower is in 4D Chess when you’re trying to gaslight your alcoholic roommate.
Chess players are the only people who will put on a suit to play a board game.
- Well, someone doesn't dress up for Monopoly. It's not the same without the Top Hat.
Sports shoes? Isn't competitive chess a sport?
- My thoughts exactly.
Dutch doesn't have a word for sneakers. They are called sports shoes.
- What do the Dutch call people that sneak then?
  
  Sports shoes.
  
  Sports hoes
  
  Snickers.
I wonder if there is a specific rule against clown shoes.
- There's a blanket rule about "indecent clothing" or something, they could probably fine whatever they wanted.
- Now I want to see Magnus Carlsen come in clown shoes at the next FIDE event. I wonder what they will do then.
And there's no rule against wifi controlled vibrating anal beans. Interesting.
Whoever thought that a game that follows very, very strict rules would have a strict dress code, time code, ethics code, or any other kind of code? Oh, that's right, anybody smart enough to play chess well. Fucking duh.

Sticklers gonna stickle, or let all adults play nude to wearing anything.
- Nah, this is some horseshit. Those shoes do not clearly violate any rules, and also why the fuck do they have a rule against "sports shoes" but allow "sneakers," and how the hell are those not sneakers?
  
  The game has extremely strict rules, that's no reason to think the organization running it is more anal than Niemann's beads
  
  That's what happens when you allow bureaucrats to rule. It happens in every field, in every industry. It sucks how quickly the rules become seriously caricature-like and out of touch. Cf. Kafka's The Trial.
- Go on then, show us which rule she broke.
  
  We'll wait.
- Did a superiority complex subreddit get shafted by Steve recently? Been seeing a lot of shit like this lately.
  
  lemmy has had the superiority complex folks of reddit since the very beginning. that and trekkies for some reason lol

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