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Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans

Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Carlsen has been a giant child the last few years.

The sooner Caruana gains 30 rating points and replaces his as #1, the better.

I don’t care if fide are in the right or wrong, this is the newest in a line of unprofessional behaviour by the former world champ.

We’re basically living in both the Fischer and Kasparov timelines at the same time

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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The grandmaster said he had offered to change his trousers for the next day, but was fined and told he needed to change immediately.

Who is being childish and unprofessional? Fining and kicking someone out over pants (and shoes) is the height of pettiness to me. He sounds like someone who just didn’t care about it, and that’s fine. If you don’t like the rules, leave. And he did.

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- PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  He cared the 100 other tournaments, and he would have cared if his first 2-3 days weren’t terrible and not be out of winning the tournament.
  
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- Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  I don’t care if fide are in the right or wrong, this is the newest in a line of unprofessional behaviour by the former world champ.
  
  I’m willing to bet he arrived late like usual so he had no chance to change.
  
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