Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 11 months ago

Chess Player Fined Over Her 'Sports Shoes'

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Chess Player Fined Over Her 'Sports Shoes'

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Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 11 months ago

Dutch player Anna-Maja Kazarian was forced to change them, despite ambiguous dress code

On the spectrum of cheddar offenses, this is nothing

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Sports shoes? Isn’t competitive chess a sport?
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  My thoughts exactly.

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