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posted by on Monday May 01 2017, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-grow-up-so-quickly-these-days dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday May 01 2017, @04:43PM (4 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday May 01 2017, @04:43PM (#502345) Journal

    Part of me suspects the girl's real offense was, "thinking while female."

    Chess players try to psych each other out all the time. It's part of the game. It's on you to stay focused on the board and the possibilities and to shut out everything else. If you're contesting position and advantage it shouldn't matter in the least if your opponent is male, female, clothed, naked, or a tentacle beast from Omicron 8.

    Can you kill the king? In chess it's the only thing that matters.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @04:49PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @04:49PM (#502348)

    It's on you to stay focused on the board and the possibilities and to shut out everything else.

    Do you even comprehend that we are discussing pubescent children who don't have any practice ignoring their hormones yet? You were once a 12 year old boy filled with raging hormones. It's such a shame you can't remember because it was 100 years ago and you've since gone senile.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @05:33PM (#502387)

      Do you even comprehend that we are discussing pubescent children who don't have any practice ignoring their hormones yet? You were once a 12 year old boy filled with raging hormones. It's such a shame you can't remember because it was 100 years ago and you've since gone senile.

      Well, I'm still quite a way from 100, and I do remember those days when I was a "12 year old boy filled with raging hormones". Most times when I got out of line my mother or father would quickly step in and tell me to put a lid on it. Worked every time. It's too bad your parents didn't do their job to teach you some self control.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday May 01 2017, @09:48PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday May 01 2017, @09:48PM (#502529) Journal

      I'm still a 12 year old boy filled with raging hormones. Can't you tell from my level of discourse? I use 'dude,' 'brah,' and 'whoa' nearly every third word.

      When I was physically a 12 year old boy filled with raging hormones, I played chess avidly in Chess Club and in tournaments. I was able to do it, and the other 12 year old boys were able to do it, too. In a way, the mental intensity and concentration were a welcome relief from the mystifying complexity and disappointment of dealing with said hormones and trying to deal with girls who were really, really not into guys who were in the Chess Club.

      That said, we still tried to psych each other out any way we could, and if you could not tune it out you usually lost.

      Disqualifying that girl because of that dress doesn't pass the sniff test for me. More likely is the judge didn't like having a girl who looked like a girl potentially beating the boys at a man's (in his eyes) game. Many men from sexist cultures feel quite threatened by women doing things they judge belong to the masculine sphere of activity.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @07:09PM (#502459)

    I bet you're right. Guy was losing the chess game and resorted to this way of settling their score. Pathetic.