You didn't know it, but the world of chess just suffered because of some cowboys

Gone are the days when Kasparov faced off against a computer or when Bobby Fischer became an internationally prestigious figure. Chess is not going through its best moment, having to compete with modern board games and thousands of leisure alternatives, but it still attracts both enthusiasts and outsiders who, in recent times, have tarnished the sport (intellectual, but a sport nonetheless) with ridiculous situations involving anal plugs and poisonings. But nothing like what happened this week.

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A Good Jean Tonic

Let me introduce you to Magnus Carlsen, the great world chess champion, who has been at the center of an unprecedented controversy: he attended a New York tournament in jeans because he was coming from a meeting and didn’t have time to change. When asked to leave, buy other pants, and change, he refused to do so, was fined 200 dollars, and was later threatened with being kicked out of the competition. The world champion. Over a pair of jeans.

According to the federation, he was breaking the dress code, and it was something unbreakable and indisputable… until Carlsen threatened to withdraw from the annual tournament where he was supposed to defend his title. It was then that the federation modified the rules: “Following the official dress code is required, but minor and elegant deviations (including appropriate jeans that match the jacket) are allowed“. It seems that by threatening and making moves, people understand each other.

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