Magnus Carlsen returns to World Blitz Championship after FIDE relaxes dress code rule

Broadcaster and Wordsmith Kel Richard has weighed in on the dress code controversy in the World Chess Championship. It comes after Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen returned to the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in New York after a dispute over jeans was resolved. International Chess Federation president Arkady Dvorkovich said in a statement that he’d let World Blitz Championship tournament officials consider allowing “appropriate jeans” with a jacket, and other “elegant minor deviations” from the dress code. “So we maybe have to change the mental image we have of chess. The chess players are not as dowdy as they want,” Mr Richards said. “Rapid chess is breathtaking and terrifying. So he might be very smart and very clever and also very sharply dressed.”