proper order FIDE! that naka fella is a disgrace to top events, though there are much scruffier and smellier plays about without naming...

...clothes that expose areas of the body usually covered in the location where the event is taking place...

So if women play in an islamic environment, then they should all wear Bhurka's?

One might think that getting their act together and figure out how to organize world championships properly would have been a priority ...

This was triggered by the distasteful cap nakamura likes to wear.

This probably isn't about "the average chess fan" (who may or may not care about how players dress), but rather about sponsors and maybe (mainstream) media - they care about the image of chess, or rather FIDE does care? As for the ECU rules, I would assume that these rules aren't too strictly applied all the time - not for table128 of the Olympiad, not for competitions with "young young players" (for the World Chess Solving Championship, the rules explicitly refer to FIDE representatives only).

Wonder what happens if the tournament winner shows up in jeans at the award ceremony. Does he forfeit the prize?

This all seems pretty reasonable imo. It's definitely important to maintain a certain image for the top events, but players seem to do this anyway, by and large. Interesting that sunglasses and caps are banned... no more hiding those eyes! :D

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FIDE does its "work".... how about doing something useful?

Making Chess even more unsexy

I also wonder why fans of some deities are allowed to wear their preferred head gear and why fans of some sport clubs or people that just like hats are not permitted to do so.
In my opinion it would have sufficed to remind people that they represent chess to a wider audience and should dress and act accordingly.

"Exception can be made on the basis of health and religion."

I hereby announce the founding of the Church of Indecent Clothing.

"The following is NOT acceptable for women players"

That list is guaranteed to annoy some people :-)

Freedom!

I'm surprised FIDE do not require a top hat, a waistcoat, and a cravat. Patent leather shoes worn with spats should also be strictly enforced.

Bikini chess is the future.

I wear a cap to shield my eyes from the glare of overhead fluorescent lighting - same reason I wear one outdoors. Ridiculous to ban functional clothing. Last thing we need is more irrelevant rules.

Nazism is over!! Please...NO MORE UNIFORMS please! Let people have a freedom to be themselves, in clothes...

Sunglasses is supposed to be a good remedy for opponents who use the annoying "strategy" of staring into your face when you're trying to think! So if they ban sunglasses, they should explicitly ban staring too.

Another thought: With such a strict division into male and female dress codes, which code should transgendered people and transvestites be following?

Stupid and unnecessary. I strongly object to women not being allowed to wear revealing attire!

I always loved about chess that it is a game of the mind and not a game of appearances. Young, old, male, female... and also clothing obviously: all of that becomes irrelevant at the board, it is the skill that counts. Too bad that the people that are currently in charge of chess have no idea about the essence of the game. Ridiculous rule-suggestion.

In many sports it is easy to control players because organisers are older than the participants, Chess is different and attractive to dissidents for that reason. Unfortunately the only way to get FIDE officials to see sense is to threaten boycotts of their events. Even that might not work if the event is sufficiently attractive that annoying rules will be shrugged off.

So much for my dream of FIDE-rated strip-chess tournaments.

How about cut cleavage? I guess women wear it to distract non-gay men opponent and lesbian opponents.

Also men should comb their hair properly. Most of the events Carlsen is faking to appear as a ruffled, devil may care model.

I'm intrigued by the little details.

Why the Bermuda shorts? Why are they acceptable, and why only for men?

"Revealing attire, [...] see-through materials or [...] expose areas of the body usually covered" is "NOT acceptable" only if the player is a woman.

"Unclean" versus "noticeable unclean". What's the point in making this difference?

An organizing committee member may remove the chief arbiter from the event for wearing a hat or ...

...wait a second. Arbiters are not allowed to wear jeans. Really?

All power to the Members of the Presidential Board!

I think the whole idea of a dress code is ridiculous. In high level tournaments, players tend to dress nicely anyway. In the US, some tournaments are FIDE rated but the players tend to dress casually. Wearing a hat is often important to a player, who will not do his/her best without it.

I do agree that the World Championship Match should have a dress code since that is covered more widely and shows the face of chess to the World.

I think the officers of FIDE are out of touch with the world and don't realize that most chess players don't pay any attention to FIDE tournaments even where they live. Certainly the rest of the world is not at all interested.

The purpose of FIDE should be to get more people playing chess, not getting professional chess players to dress up like monkeys.

Let Naka wear his hat... :)

I don't know which post first NOT to read, FIDE's or this one.

Don't you guys at chessvibes understand that allowing posts with trolls commenting you lose money on sales??

I also think the officers of FIDE are out of touch with the world and don't realize that most chess players don't pay any attention to FIDE tournaments even where they live.