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  • A 12-year-old chess champion was kicked out of a tournament for her ‘seductive’ dress

    04/30/2017 6:58:37 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 27 replies
    Sacramento Bee ^ | April 30, 2017 | Marissa Payne
    A 12-year-old chess champion in Malaysia was forced to withdraw from a youth tournament in the country after tournament organizers deemed her knee-length dress too "seductive," the girl's coach said. The tournament director of the National Scholastic Chess Championship held April 14-16 made the call personally, the coach noted, after finding the dress to be "temptation."
  • Malignant Turks refuse to play Israeli national anthem for Israeli chess tournament winner...

    11/26/2009 12:42:48 AM PST · by myknowledge · 41 replies · 2,332+ views
    Jihad Watch ^ | November 24, 2009
    Marcel Efroimski, a 13-year-old Israeli chess prodigy, yesterday became the Girls' Under-14 World Chess Champion when she won the Gold Medal for her age group at the World Youth Chess Championships held in Turkey. This in itself is not of any interest to Jihad Watch -- except that during the awards ceremony, the malignant (if not turban'd) and increasingly Islamic supremacist Turkish authorities refused to play the Israeli National Anthem, as is required at such ceremonies. However, young Marcel would not play the dhimmi. She stood on the podium and raised her trophy with an expression of defiance -- as...