Top ranked Chess the player Magnus Carlsen going back to World Blitz Championship He was fined and denied a late-round game in the second tournament for refusing to change jeans after his governing body agreed to loosen the dress code on Monday.
Lamenting the violations, International Chess Federation president Arkady Durkovich said in a statement Sunday that he had asked World Blitz Championship tournament officials to include jackets with “appropriate jeans” and other “pretty minor deviations” from the dress code. Will consider allowing.
He said that Carlson's position— Which ended up leaving the tournament on Friday. – highlighted the need for further discussion “to ensure that our rules and their application reflect the evolving nature of chess as a universal and accessible game.”
Karlsson, meanwhile, said in a video posted on social media on Sunday that he will wear jeans — and jeans — at the World Blitz Championships, which begin on Monday.
“I think the situation was handled badly by him,” said the 34-year-old Norwegian grandmaster. But he added that he likes playing blitz – a fast-paced form of chess – and wants fans to be able to watch it, and was inspired by his talks with the federation after Friday's showdown. happened
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“I think we all want the same thing,” he suggested in a video on the YouTube channel of his TechTackTackTack chess app. “We want players to be comfortable, confident, but also relatively presentable.”
The incidents began when Carlson wore jeans and a sport coat to Friday's Rapid World Championship, which is separate from the Blitz event but is held on Friday. is The chess federation said on Friday that long-standing rules prohibit jeans at these tournaments, and that players are required to wear sartorial clothing if necessary. It is kept close by to make switching up easy.
An official fined Carlson $200 and asked him to change pants, but he refused and was not paired for the ninth-round match, the federation said at the time. The organization noted that another grandmaster, Ian Nipomaniacci, was fined for wearing sports shoes on the first day, changed and continued to play.
Carlson has said he offered to wear something else the next day, but officials refused. “It's become a bit of a rule thing,” he said, so he dropped the speed and blitz championships.
In a video posted on Sunday, she questioned whether she had actually broken any rules and said changing clothes would unnecessarily interfere with her focus between games. He described the sentence as “incredibly harsh”.
“Of course, I could have changed. Obviously, I didn't want to,” he said, and “I stand by it.”
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