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Iranian Chess Arbiter Clashes with Fide over Human Rights Attire

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> Bayat pointed out to Llada that a dress code for arbiters does not exist. The next day, FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich came to the tournament (as Bayat pointed out, wearing jeans and a t-shirt himself but that was only briefly after his arrival). He did not talk to Bayat about her clothes, but in a Whatsapp message, he told her not to mix politics with chess and asked her to stop wearing the t-shirt. Bayat asked for a written request, which did not materialize.

Arkady seems like a great guy who is never a hypocrite who has only others in mind. (sarcasm)

Please explain the hypocrisy. "Jeans and t shirt" is not staging political activism inside a chess match.

Who is the president of FIDE? Meet Arkady Dvorkovich:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Dvorkovich

http://archive.government.ru/eng/persons/185/docs.html?page=...

The previous president of FIDE, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, was the autocratic ruler of Kalmykia, a semi-autonomous region of Russia. He regularly had dissenters and journalists imprisoned, tortured and murdered, and is under sanctions from the US government for aiding Bashar Al-Assad.

What I’m saying is that you really shouldn’t expect much from this organization in the human rights department. The “one country, one vote” rule it uses to elect Presidents practically guarantees that the winner will be whoever uses the most brazen vote-buying scheme.

TIL! That is so fucked up. I can not believe this.

Civil disobedience is her choice, but she should accept the consequences of abusing her position as an arbiter to raise awareness of her political causes.

for a chess arbiter she doesn't appear to be very logical. this has nothing to do with "dress code". it's the message on her cloths that's the problem, not the cloths without the message. what if another arbiter had the russian flag and Z on their cloths? would that pass? it's common sense for the arbiter to be politically neutral. the players can be from any country.

She's quite logical. She is doing this for attention to her political cause, and it is working. She clearly cares more about the cause than she cares about chess, which is a rational choice given her personal moral values.

And, with that being made abundantly clear, she should perhaps cede her role to someome who cares more about chess. Being a chess arbiter and all.

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