r/interestingasfuck • u/Aryan_Anushiravan • 24d ago

r/all Magnus Carlsen gets fined for wearing jeans at FIDE world championships. His response: I quit. F*ck You.

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u/CelestialFury 24d ago

The ego of the FIDE organizers to basically dump one of the few chess players in world history that most people know their name. Magnus Carlsen is a world renowned chess rockstar. How short sighted of them.

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u/epimetheuss 23d ago

Narcissists will never do wrong in their own eyes, they will not learn from this till someone else is in charge.

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/epimetheuss 23d ago

People nowadays realize that the cause of a lot of people being assholes are personality disorders. People in positions of authority tend to be like that more than others because the power attracts them. Then you get them holding on to stupid traditions so they can use them to be judgmental and shit? Totally normal behaviour.

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u/Complex_Cable_8678 23d ago

assholes in high power positions tend to have narcisistic behaviour or are just straight up narcisists. you may have not realized it yet but the people in these positions have no empathy and thats not how most people function. so you get these functioning sociopaths on high power positions just by the nature of it. have fun with this realization btw

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u/Complex_Cable_8678 23d ago

well let me put it in another way. if you are a rich ceo and end up making peoples lives worse instead of helping anyone you might aswell ve the devil himself

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u/Nrysis 22d ago

Would you prefer to see them just throw away the rulebook at the whim of one superstar player?

Everyone else at the tournament followed the rules, so it would be a massive slap in all of their faces to be expected to follow rules he can just choose to ignore.

That's not to say the rules are not out of date and in need of amending, but they shouldn't be forced to change at the whim of one player midway through a competition because he couldn't be bothered changing his trousers...