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Girl forced to quit Malaysian Chess Tournament for wearing seductive skirt

The dress code in Malaysia's chess tournaments states that a player must have a dignified appearance

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This dress was allegedly deemed seductive by the organizers of the chess tournament. Photo from the Facebook page of Kaushal Kal

Mong Palatino | Global Voices
A 12-year-old girl withdrew from a national chess competition in Malaysia after some of the organizers said her knee-length skirt was “improper” and violated the tournament’s dress code.

This was revealed by the girl’s coach through a Facebook post which quickly went viral. Kaushal Khandhar wrote that during the tournament, an organizer approached the girl and her mother about the “seductive” dress which is deemed a “temptation from a certain angle far, far away.”

The dress code in Malaysia’s chess tournaments simply states that a player must have a “dignified appearance”.

The mother tried to buy a new dress

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