The defending champion said he quit as a "matter of principle" after being told to change his jeans.
  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Yeah, he wasn’t wearing jeans to protest the elitism of formal dress. He was wearing them to provoke friction and drama so that he’d have an excuse to walk.

    A bunch of you are treating him like some sort of folk hero when, in reality, he’s only about himself.

    And sure, a dress code seems weird for a game like chess, but truth be told, he has had years to protest against that if he wanted. He didn’t want to. And now, if anything he’s proving to the authorities that players that wear jeans are not in it for the game.

    • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      And that excuse that he was wearing jeans for a meeting and forgot to change them…

      I wear a non-jeans uniform for my job too. It’s a pointless rule, but if I turned up in jeans I’d get called out.

      And you know what, I have never forgot what I’m wearing and accidentally rolled up in jeans.

      I suspect that is true form a lot of us.

      Bullshit excuse.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      11 days ago

      I don’t think his reasoning is relevant at all. I could not care less why he chose to wore jeans. The rule is stupid, period.