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Free Malaysia Today reports
At the [Malaysian] National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017, which took place in Putrajaya recently, the girl was informed that what she wore was "improper and had violated the dress code" for the tournament.
[...] The girl's chess coach, Kaushal Khandhar, wrote on Facebook, "In the middle of Round 2, (without stopping the clocks) Chief Arbiter informs my student that the dress she wore was improper and violated the dress code of the tournament.
"It was later informed (by Chief Arbiter) to my student and her mother, that the Tournament Director deemed my student's dress to be 'seductive' and a 'temptation from a certain angle far, far away'."
[...] Kaushal said after discussions with the chief arbiter, the girl was allowed to compete, provided she bought a pair of slacks for the next day, but that decision came at 10pm and with the event at Putrajaya, there was no way the girl's mother could buy anything for the 9am start the next day.
"Before the morning round next day, my student's mother called the tournament director regarding this matter. Initially he had replied that he was not aware of the situation but after a brief discussion, we realised he knew all the details on this incident prior to this phone call.
"He promised to return the call upon discussion with the chief arbiter, but this did not happen. He would further not answer or return any calls by my student's mother", Kaushal wrote, adding that the situation led to the inevitable decision of withdrawal from the tournament altogether."
We should perhaps note here that Malaysia is majority-Muslim.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @04:26PM (7 children)
Clothing that shows skin is a distraction from chess and does not belong at a chess tournament. Take your irrelevant religious bigotry and fuck the hell off, you racist sack of shit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 01 2017, @04:39PM
It is only your own sense of inferiority that shows you racism everywhere.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Monday May 01 2017, @04:44PM
Distraction is part of the game. Otherwise why let the players see each others' faces? They should play in front of a monitor showing the chess board, and not in front of an audience. Personally, I think they should have to play naked, in the Vatican, in front of the ESPN cameras.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:06PM
Clothing that shows skin is a distraction from chess and does not belong at a chess tournament.
Look at the photo of the girl in her dress. It doesn't "show skin" its a completely normal dress for a 12-year old school girl to wear.
Take your irrelevant religious bigotry and fuck the hell off, you racist sack of shit.
You are right, but for the wrong reasons. Its his connecting this stupidity to islam that is dumb. There is nothing in the reporting to suggest that religiosity is at play. Malaysia isn't the only country where stupid sexist dress-policing occurs on a regular basis. Even today in the UK it is legal for an employer to force women to wear high-heels at work. [telegraph.co.uk]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:13PM
But Jared, the only reason you would ever be distracted by seeing a 12 year old girl's arms is because you're a disgusting pedo kidfucker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @06:18PM
Calm down everyone, at least if he's on here posting his complete stupidity then he not out smashing windows at local universities or attacking "racist" students exiting their classes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @09:59PM (1 child)
I play chess on the beach, you ignorant clod! One of these days I might even play chess on a nude beach...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @02:00PM
One of these days I might even play chess on a nude beach...
You haven't before? All the best players are there!
A nice intellectual game, free of alien parasites [wikia.com], and you can relax and get a nice full body tan without any of those annoying tan lines. That is the way humans were meant to be!