https://www.newser.com/story/344427/chess-player-fined-over-her-sports-shoes.html
Dutch player Anna-Maja Kazarian was forced to change them, despite ambiguous dress code
On the spectrum of cheddar offenses, this is nothing
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.
Wow that’s ridiculous.
Makes me think of how it’s nuts that women are forced to wear skirts in tennis still.
Women were forced to wear all white at Wimbledon, including underwear... Until they finally got an exemption for women menstruating THIS YEAR! In fucking 2023. Absolutely ridiculous.
Vague rules are meant to be enforced arbitrarily. The whole point is to give the enforcers an excuse to penalize someone.
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.
Certainly, although this is assuming the judge will act fairly. It could be that the judge just didn't like her, for whatever reason.
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.
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
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.