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US Chess Champ Won't Compete for World Title if it Means Wearing a Hijab
New York Post ^ | 10/6 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 10/06/2016 11:13:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway

After years of playing with pawns and bishops, the reigning queen of US chess finds herself in the biggest stalemate of her career.

Nazi Paikidze, 22, shook up the chess world over the weekend when the US women’s champion announced she’s boycotting the Women’s World Chess Championship in Iran in February instead of complying with the country’s law that women cover up with a hijab. The Russian-born star, who now lives in Las Vegas, told The Post she won’t budge unless FIDE — the world chess federation — moves the competition to a “no-conflict” zone or makes wearing the hijab optional.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chess; hajib; hijab; muslimwomen; muslimworld; women
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To: nickcarraway

Good for her. That Hijab stuff is BS. What moron picked Iran for a chess championship?


41 posted on 10/06/2016 11:47:26 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Mount Athos

“Georgia was the second country in the world to have christianity as the official religion”


After Armenia, right?


42 posted on 10/06/2016 11:48:06 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: nickcarraway

you get your kix above the waistline, sunshine...


43 posted on 10/06/2016 11:48:57 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: wbill

I had to look it up in the Urban Dictionary.
Unicorn
The rare creature who is able to give you the thing you always wanted but thought you you could never have.
“You fell in love with a unicorn. It was beautiful, then sad, then sadder. I laughed, I cried, I puked in my mouth a little. And honestly, I kind of get it.”

Like the thread about the kid who dressed up like a thief, white culture, ya da ya da ya da, I still don’t get it.


44 posted on 10/06/2016 11:49:00 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: nickcarraway

Good on her ... unfortunate name


45 posted on 10/06/2016 11:51:07 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: BenLurkin

Who names their kid.....”

I’ve got a buddy who named his daughter Uzi.

It’s a Jewish thing.


46 posted on 10/06/2016 11:51:20 AM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Mount Athos

“Nazi means “gentle” in Georgian.”

Well, that’s the only place it does.


47 posted on 10/06/2016 11:55:00 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: tumblindice
Urban Dictionary? That wasn't my intent. Maybe I should brush up on my street lingo. Hang out on the SouthSide of FR for awhile.....

What I meant was that you never, ever see women, good looking or not, at chess tournaments. Ever. They're unicorns, only existing in pictures.

I played for years and years, and can count the number of women I played against on one hand, with a couple of fingers left over. Was fairly friendly with one, she was practical, said that she joined the Chess Team to meet guys.

Made sense to me. She had her pick of horny chess nerds, if that was her thing, more power to her.

48 posted on 10/06/2016 11:57:09 AM PDT by wbill
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To: nickcarraway

And the girl wonders why nobody ever came to her birthday parties!


49 posted on 10/06/2016 12:00:17 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: nickcarraway

F Iran, and FIDE - what a bunch of moronic twats.
Good for her and standing up for her principles.


50 posted on 10/06/2016 12:08:55 PM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: Ann Archy
NAZI??? OMG!!!! You can’t make this stuff up!!

Well, according to her bio on Wiki, it's pronounced Nah-ZEE, is a fairly common Georgian name, and it means tender or delicate.

51 posted on 10/06/2016 12:21:29 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: All

I thought men and women were equal and all that. If so, why is there a female only chess organization? Sounds terribly sexist to me.


52 posted on 10/06/2016 12:25:46 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (It's been like a slomo French Revolution, without the tumbrils-yet!)
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To: butlerweave

I honestly don’t understand why you would have gender separation in chess.

It is not a physical activity, so separating champions might imply that women also can’t compete in a mental game like chess???

Really? Where are the feminist?


53 posted on 10/06/2016 12:42:33 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: nickcarraway

“The kind of queens we use would no excite you.”

Alright, alright ... I’m heading back to my bars, my temples, and my massage parlors ...


54 posted on 10/06/2016 12:44:11 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: nickcarraway

yeah. sporting boycotts can cut both ways leftists...take that nfl, chess league, ncaa.


55 posted on 10/06/2016 12:44:33 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: BenLurkin

“Who names their kid.....”

It is pronounced NahhZee and means tender.


56 posted on 10/06/2016 12:44:48 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Lester Holt — Clinton House Boy.)
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To: raygunfan
video Bangkok
57 posted on 10/06/2016 12:51:42 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (what a mess we got ourselves into)
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To: SaxxonWoods

bump


58 posted on 10/06/2016 12:56:38 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: nickcarraway

good for her...

who says all nazi’s are bad


59 posted on 10/06/2016 1:14:40 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Ann Archy

she wolf of the SS, sorry that was ilsa...

but she was a nazi

t


60 posted on 10/06/2016 1:16:03 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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