Teenage Iranian chess master banned from national team for not wearing headscarf

There are so many stories to tell about the FIDE and corruption. If you are interested google for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.. the president of the FIDE. He does not need to hide behind Blatter..

It's just soccer is covered by television and chess is not. That's why you don't hear about it usually.

Someone has already mentioned FIDE corruption. Usually when FIDE does something questionable that is the reason.

Not, however, in this case. It's in Iran for the simple reason that only Iran submitted a bid to host it.

It was originally supposed to be late last year, but nobody bid, and FIDE had to move it back a few months and try again. On the retry they got a single bid, from Iran.