Time to start boycotting ECU events. Dress code, whatever, I like players wearing suits, but telling a player when they can and can't offer draws is BRAVO SIERRA.

Dresscode? Oh shiatt we are all screwedd.

So do I have to wear a tie now? Or can I wear a dress instead?

Dress code ?

for real ?

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Am I the only one who's getting fed up with these no-draw-before-move-X kind of rules? If you don't want that players aim for a short draw then don't reward them both with 1/2 point.
If both players instead 'earn' zero points for a draw there is no reason to not play on. Problem solved.

And if I and my opponent we decide to play our game under some sort of free license like GPL, Copyleft and so on? I think Copyright in Chess should be allowed but NOT mandatory for all.

Anti-draw si, dress code no! I loved the old days in chess, where it didn't matter if somebody showed up in a rumpled shirt and faded jeans, because THE MATHEMATICS OF THE BOARD ARE ALL THAT MATTER. If you make the right moves, who cares even if you look like a monkey?

Dress code? Ridiculous. It's 2011, remember.

Even in chess the liberals are taking over!. When I play a game of chess,its between me and my opponent,if we want a draw its our decision NOT some politician!!. A dress code ?, insane!!!!.

Does this mean I won't be seeing Grischuk playing chess in a dark colored t-shirt again?

screw ECU, dresscode? copyright? these totally retarded decisions make them look like an official of the corrupt EU.

Dress-code? That's revolutionary!
I'm sure they needed many extensive meetings and debates for this highly important matter. I'm very glad they are spending time on it, that's exactly what this commitee should be there for! For next year I propose to discuss the colors of the ties (in a conference hall in a very expensive hotel of course).

Going by all the short draws I've seen in the current European Team Championship, most of which probably came about due to a desire for extra rest days by one or both players and a lack of confidence by the other or both players (if you don't want to play because you're afraid of your opponent perhaps you should just resign instead), and my personal lack of interest in such passive draws, I find having to actually PLAY the games you're SUPPOSED TO PLAY (for 40 moves, anyway) much better. It's all good and well to let amateurs draw whenever they please, but events like this surely are funded in large part by the expectation that real games will be played that interest the audience (whoever that may be). Perhaps many in that audience don't care about getting only half as many interesting games as there otherwise might be, but I personally do care. If you're a professional you should play, should you not? Perhaps better incentives (such as some money for each win a player achieves) would also help.

The ECU's official dress code is to follow this man:
http://www.chessbase.com/news/2009/fide/aronian05.jpg

The next ECU meeting's agenda is to force all participants to dance like this man before the start of each game:
http://www.chessbase.com/news/2006/turin/party15.jpg

Somebody should have proposed an anti-Danailov code instead.

This iz a very light revolution: they try to make a heaven in the hole of the chicken. Classical chess must be banned and replaced by random chess, at least in an incremental way.

Actually a dresscode makes pretty much sense for anything aiming to be professional, or so it seems to me. Can anyone provide me with some arguments why to bash this so much without any reasoning? Just curious...

I would like to know the contents of this dress code. Bareev on whychess.org says no more than: 'from now on chess players will be asked to dress neat and tidily'. That doesn't sound too bad.
There is an extensive article (in Dutch) on chess and dress on http://maxeuwe.nl/columns/kleding.html. Two arguments there that can make you look differently on dress codes in general:
- T-shirts with political messages can disturb your opponent (even when you're right). The famous example is the Gulko-shirt that IGM Van der Wiel once wore against USSR opponents.
- Sponsor names can conflict with the interests of tournament organizers. For instance, Tata organizers wouldn't be pleased with a participant advocating U.S. Steel on his shirt during their tournament.

By the way, quoting Dutch representative Hamers in this article, there seems to be no intention to force players to wear a tie in ECU-events.
Anyone has a text of this dress code?

God forbid we should dress neatly and tidily.

What's the big deal about the dress code? Name a single professional sport (other than chess) where this is not required. (At least for the top level events.)

>> God forbid we should dress neatly and tidily.

Indeed.

"Actually a dresscode makes pretty much sense for anything aiming to be professional, or so it seems to me. Can anyone provide me with some arguments why to bash this so much without any reasoning? Just curious.."

As far as I'm concerned, I'm not opposed to dress code because I wouldn't want to see players dressed "neatly and tidily". I am against it because dressing appropriately is not a rule to be enforced, but rather a matter of good manners. It simply goes without saying that players should show up in proper and clean clothing, and when you think about it, it's actually quite rare to see a player failing to do so. When good manners and etiquette become an object of explicit regulation, bureaucracy triumphs over common sense. And I'm afraid the dress code is just a comic side of the problem. Banishing draws before move 40 stems from the same illusion, i.e. that playing exciting chess could be incited by the regulation. The only thing we'll get from this nonsense is a few more awkwardly clothed players and a lot of bad games, won over trivial mistakes in drawn positions.

Questions:
1- What willl be the penalty for not following the dress code?
2- Who will have the responsibility of deciding whether a player is or is not following the dress code?

The last person in the world to lecture any one on what is "professional" is Silvio Danailov, the author of toiletgate.

1. Dress codes can be abused on both sides. Income is also a factor in these thingss so care should always be taken. Requiring Anand to pay for a suit is very different than requiring a poor country's players who scrape together funds to fly to an event pay for one.
2. Copyrighting chess moves is basically impossible. It would also require copyright of all text descriptions of sporting events as well. Newspaper, television reports, blogs all would be effected. How would you describe a brilliant move in chess other than with a game score?

I welcome dress codes. I demand short dresses wwith plunging necklines for all attractive 20-something, single female chessplayers.

Is there any professional sport where the players can where whatever they please?
I think a dress code is good for the promotion of the great sport of chess.

I'm still gonna wear my "Tintin in Tibet" t-shirt!

A dress code makes the pitch to sponsors more attractive. A sponsor who is putting up money for a chess tournament would prefer to have well-dressed players. It adds to the class and prestige, and "image" of the event. The sponsor is probably prefers to be perceived as classy and prestigious itself, so just imagine the winner of a big tournament accepting his trophy unshaven with holes in his jeans and a purple mickey mouse t-shirt. It would make the whole tournament look like a farce or a joke. These are not just random or arbitrary decisions, guys.