Knows the rules shows up in jeans and is asked to change. He decides to leave…lol really shows his character! Also got upset and quit when the American beat him…

Maintaining fashion standards (nb: hygiene is a separate issue) in an intellectual contest is so fucking stupid. Who decided jeans were less formal than khakis anyway?

I could absolutely see a dresscode being enforced heavily if it was seen by the opponent during the match, then a choice of color or style could be done to mess with the opponent, but they sit at a table, the opponent can't see his pants, as long as the pants would be acceptable for an IT guy in an office, they should be acceptable here

The article I read yesterday about it was skewed a little different.

He was out for lunch with a friend and went straight to the tournament after and forgot he was wearing jeans. He offered to change them for the next day but they said he had to do it now, at which point he said it was a matter of principal and walked off. I know I have no idea how the "societal elite" live but I don't carry an extra set of pants on me when I go places.

As someone who accidentally ended up on a management level web cam meeting with a "death and taxes being the only thing you can count on" shirt, I understand not realizing what you are wearing in the morning. I have since made changes to what I allow myself to wear on working days

The dress code is designed to ensure fairness and professionalism sounds like school officials saying we take the safety of our students very seriously whenever they've done something really stupid.

Relevant links:

• FIDE statement regarding Magnus Carlsen’s dress code breach
• Statement by FIDE President on dress-code rules for Rapid and Blitz Championships
• FIDE dress code

Emphasis on the third link, on what's not allowed: sneakers, jeans, t-shirts. Under the claim that it's "to maintain the high standards of the FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships"... yeah, nah, non sequitur.

And more importantly it shows that the dress code in question is NOT about decency, or preventing cheating, or not distracting other players; it's all about "if you dress casually we're going to be assumptive trash and assume that you don't take the competition seriously." No wonders Carlsen walked away from it.

Did he shit himself or something? What was wrong with the jeans he was wearing?

Every time I see a headline about a chess tournament, it's for something like this