Ana Maya KazarianAnna-Maja Kazarian is a Dutch chess player with FIDE Grandmaster (FM) and Women's International Grandmaster (WIM) titles. Because she is also a live broadcast anchor, she has a lot of young fans. Kazarian, who won the European silver medal at the age of 12, was also known as a "talented girl".
It's just that now the well-known chess player, who is only 22 years old, is a little troubled, becauseWhen she went to Uzbekistan for a tournament, she was inexplicably fined 100 euros(Approx. 785RMB)., on the grounds that she was wearing "strange shoes that looked like sneakers".
Kazarian recounted her ordeal on her YouTube channel, while also showing off the shoes she wore that day, a pair of canvas shoes from the British veteran Burberry.
Even if you walk in these shoes, your feet will hurt," Kazarian said without giving any face, "I definitely don't want to wear them to sports." Apparently, she wanted to state that the espadrilles were not what the organizers believed they were.
Kazarian said halfway through the game, she saw a huge warning sign.
It says an official warning, so the striking color is something you definitely won't miss, and I saw it with my peripheral vision, like a ray of light. I thought it was aimed at me, and my train of thought was disrupted. Do I need to go and change my shoes?How to change it?Go back to my room?Will I be kicked out of the competition?”
A referee then approached Kazarian and said that the shoes she was wearing were "weird and looked like sneakers", which is why she was warned and fined.
This is what Kazarian dressed when she went to the competition that day, and she still looked quite decent, although she didn't wear a pair of high heels for a coffee-colored pencil skirt, but the canvas shoes on her feet were not abrupt, and she didn't even choose bare legs like many girls of the same age, but wore a pair of skin-colored **.
Kazarian thought the penalty was ridiculous and applied for arbitration, saying that the fine might be lifted in the future, but that it did have a big impact on her, "I hope FIDE is happy now, but I'm completely devastated." I slept badly because of stupid shoes, I didn't have an appetite all day, and the important thing is that the game was ruined. ”
I hardly wear them because they're beautiful and they're not everyday shoes," says Kazarian of her canvas shoes, apparently paying attention to her appearance before competing in competitions, which was the main reason why she was so angry and embarrassed after being convicted of a violation.
In addition, Kazarian pointed to the fact that there are male chess players who compete in sneakers, but they don't do anything, "Why double standards?".”
Russian Grandmaster and tournament technician P**el Tregubov apologized for Kazarian's punishment, "I'm very sorry if she feels like a criminal," Tregubov said, adding that the governing body is planning to revise the current dress code.
Most people on social media expressed sympathy for Kazarian's plight, and many also expressed incomprehension of FIDE regulations on players' shoes, "When they play chess, they don't notice each other's feet, so why bother with what shoes they wear?".Some netizens said.