On the spectrum of cheddar offenses, this is nothing

    • @pizzazz
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      311 months ago

      Bruh there has always been a dress code to play chess…

        • Transporter Room 3
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          511 months ago

          The last game of chess I played in person I wore a ripped shirt and basketball shorts.

          The last game I played I was on the toilet.

          If there’s a dress code, I missed it somewhere along the way, and nobody has corrected me so I guess imma just keep playing in my comfy shit.

          If I can’t wear what I find comfortable, bragging rights at a game aren’t enough to make me change.

  • @[email protected]
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    6411 months ago

    Wow that’s ridiculous.

    Makes me think of how it’s nuts that women are forced to wear skirts in tennis still.

  • @[email protected]
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    6011 months ago

    there’s some confusion over FIDE’s dress code.

    Vague rules definitely serve a purpose.

    • @[email protected]
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      3611 months ago

      Vague rules are meant to be enforced arbitrarily. The whole point is to give the enforcers an excuse to penalize someone.

    • @[email protected]
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      2011 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        Certainly, although this is assuming the judge will act fairly. It could be that the judge just didn’t like her, for whatever reason.

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    Well, at least she didn’t shit in the shower.

    Apparently that’s a big no no in chess.

    • @pizzazz
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      That was a Xiangqi player. AFAIK, shitting in the shower is allowed in western chess.

      • @jopepa
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        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.

  • @BetaDoggo_
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    Chess players are the only people who will put on a suit to play a board game.

    • Cosmoooooooo
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      Well, someone doesn’t dress up for Monopoly. It’s not the same without the Top Hat.

  • qevlarr
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    2511 months ago

    Dutch doesn’t have a word for sneakers. They are called sports shoes.

  • @Zugyuk
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    611 months ago

    I wonder if there is a specific rule against clown shoes.

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      There’s a blanket rule about “indecent clothing” or something, they could probably fine whatever they wanted.

    • @Decq
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      Now I want to see Magnus Carlsen come in clown shoes at the next FIDE event. I wonder what they will do then.

  • Cosmoooooooo
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    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.

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      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

      • U de Recife
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        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.

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      Go on then, show us which rule she broke.

      We’ll wait.

    • @jopepa
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      Did a superiority complex subreddit get shafted by Steve recently? Been seeing a lot of shit like this lately.

      • @fill
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        lemmy has had the superiority complex folks of reddit since the very beginning. that and trekkies for some reason lol