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'Seductive' Dress Gets Girl Barred From Chess Tournament
By Victoria Brown
PETALING JAYA: A 12-year-old girl was forced to withdraw from a chess cham- pionship for wearing a dress that was allegedly deemed "seductive" by the organisers of the National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017 on April 14 in Putrajaya.
Malaysian chess player and coach Kaushal Khandhar said that the girl, who is his student and a school chess champion of her dis- trict in Kuala Lumpur, felt "harassed and humiliated" by the actions of the tour- nament director and chief arbiter.
"In the middle of Round 2, without stopping the clocks, the chief arbiter informed my student that the dress she
wore was improper," said Kaushal in a Facebook post on Thursday night.
He said that the chief arbiter told the girl and her mother that the tournament director deemed that his student's dress was "seduc- tive" and a "tempta- tion from a certain angle far, far away."
Kaushal said the statement by the tournament director was "completely out of line" and "ridicu- lous".
He added that the chief arbiter conced- ed and apologised to the girl after a discussion and assured her that there was nothing wrong with her attire. However, the chief arbiter said that she was not allowed to wear the dress due to the directive from the tournament's direc- tor.
Kaushal said the girl and her mother were given the option to go to a nearby mall to pur- chase slacks for the next round of the tournament which began at 9am the following day.
However, the shops in the area were closed and would not be open in time for the next round of the tournament.
Kaushal said the girl's mother called the tournament director regarding the matter before the next round began. The tourna- ment director prom- ised to call her back after a discussion with the chief arbiter, but that this did not happen, he said.
"He would not
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