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FIDE President on Magnus Carlsen jeans controversy: ‘I sincerely regret that this situation escalated’ | Chess News

FIDE President on Magnus Carlsen jeans controversy: ‘I sincerely regret that this situation escalated’ | Chess News

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FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has given clarification regarding the dress code controversy surrounded by Magnus Carlsen. The Fide president regretted that the way situation escalated and called the withdrawal of Magnus Carlsen “extremely unfortunate.” However, Magnus Carlsen on Sunday has confirmed that he will be playing in the World Blitz Championship a couple of days after he pulled out because he was fined by FIDE for violating the dress code rules by wearing jeans on day 2 of the event. “It is unfortunate that the implementation of dress-code rules, while being legally sound and consistent, has left some feeling this is disproportionate and caused the situation everyone would have preferred to avoid, including some of the words being said at the peak of emotions that one would most probably regret afterwards,” said Dvorkovich in a statement released by FIDE. Magnus Carlsen gives his acceptance speech at the FIDE 100 Gala with Arkady Dvorkovich, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and current president of FIDE, standing in the background. (FIDE/Michal Walusza) “The withdrawal of Magnus Carlsen, …

Magnus Carlsen on Viswanathan Anand: ‘For all his good qualities, he is not ready for FIDE job’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen on Viswanathan Anand: ‘For all his good qualities, he is not ready for FIDE job’ | Chess News

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Magnus Carlsen on Sunday has confirmed that he will be playing in the World Blitz Championship a couple of days after he pulled out because he was fined by FIDE for violating the dress code rules by wearing jeans on day 2 of the event. “Well, first of all, let’s go back to a couple of days ago. I did have some choice words for FIDE in my interview with you. And I would say that it was a bit imprecise. I definitely mean it when it comes to certain people in FIDE. No question about it,” Carlsen told “Take, Take, Take.” “I think the situation was badly mishandled on their side. And I was about to basically book my plane tickets and get out of here. My father said that we should maybe wait until the morning to make a decision to speak to the FIDE president, Arkady Dvorkovich, whom we have a good relationship with. “We know that we can reason with him. I think him actually being asleep when this thing went …

Magnus Carlsen takes a U-turn, says will participate in the World Blitz Championship: ‘I’m definitely playing in jeans’ | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen takes a U-turn, says will participate in the World Blitz Championship: ‘I’m definitely playing in jeans’ | Chess News

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A couple of days after pulling out from FIDE World Rapid and Blitz tournament, Magnus Carlsen has taken a U-turn. Carlsen has confirmed that he will participate in the World Blitz Championship and after a few alterations to the rules, he will playing in the jeans. Speaking to Levi Rozman from “Take, Take, Take” at the playing venue on Wall Street, Carlsen said: “I am playing at least one more day here in New York and, if I do well, another day after that”. “We had a lot of discussions yesterday and we have a good relationship with FIDE President Dvorkovich… Speaking to Dvorkovich and the main sponsor Turlov it did feel we could have some fruitful discussions and in the end of the day I decided to play,” Carlsen said. FIDE in a statement has also confirmed that Magnus Carlsen will participate in the FIDE World Blitz Championship. “FIDE looks forward to continuing our collaboration with Mr. Carlsen and the global chess community to enhance the conditions and atmosphere of FIDE competitions, ensuring the …

Hikaru Nakamura: ‘There’s no one who wouldn’t watch chess because Magnus Carlsen is playing in jeans, or his underwear’ | Chess News

Hikaru Nakamura: ‘There’s no one who wouldn’t watch chess because Magnus Carlsen is playing in jeans, or his underwear’ | Chess News

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World No 3 chess star Hikaru Nakamura has slammed FIDE, the world governing body of chess, for their high-handed approach regarding dress code at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship. FIDE fined world no 1 Magnus Carlsen for wearing jeans at the event in New York and insisted that he change, which led the Norwegian to quit the tournament. “This thing about dress code, the sooner that chess moves into the 21st century and we don’t try to portray this fake image of these great geniuses who never say bad things, keep emotions aside, and are gentlemen like it’s the 1600! The sooner we get past this nonsense the better chess is going to be. It’s an antiquated view. It’s out of place. The notion of fining people, it’s really comical to me that FIDE tries to enforce this dress code,” said Nakamura on his YouTube channel. Nakamura pointed out that most players competing at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship who are outside the top 10 ranks are “paying an arm, a …

Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans controversy at FIDE World Rapid and Blitz: The chess feud that foreshadowed world No 1’s pull-out | Chess News

Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans controversy at FIDE World Rapid and Blitz: The chess feud that foreshadowed world No 1’s pull-out | Chess News

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Magnus Carlsen pulled out of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz tournament on Friday night after he was fined by the global governing body of the sport for wearing jeans. While Magnus Carlsen was offered the option by FIDE of changing his attire, he opted to stop playing at the year-end event, calling it a “matter of principle”. The seeds of Carlsen’s exit were sown even before the world no 1 landed in New York. As Carlsen said in an interview with the Take Take Take app after pulling out of the event in New York, “My patience with FIDE was not very big to begin with. I’m too old at this point to care too much. They can enforce their rules. That’s fine by me. My response is, I’m out, f** you. I don’t think anything more has to be said.” Explaining why his “patience was low” with FIDE, he accused the governing body of chess of threatening players who wanted to play in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, which is a chess …