American female chess champ refuses to wear hijab in Iran tournament

[ShootSpeeders]

The real issue here should be why do women have to have chess contests separate from the men.?? The answer is women are mentally inferior - but we're not allowed to say that.

Iran Demands US Champion Wear Hijab At World Competition, LOOK How She Instantly Responds

feb 22 2017 One American champion is voicing her opposition to “women’s oppression” by boycotting the women’s world chess championship in Iran rather than bow to Iranian demands that she wear a hijab, or headscarf.

“By participating, I would be forced to submit to forms of oppression designed specifically for women,” Nazí Paikidze insisted. “It sets the wrong example, particularly for young girls interested in chess.”

Paikidze, the current U.S. chess champion, could be competing for up to $100,000 in prize money. However, she has refused to attend the event.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Why did the US Chess Federation permit a worldwide chess tournament to be held in Iran? Is that not the height of insanity? The minute that Iran tried to impose this rule on the competitors the US Chess Federation should have withdrawn the tournament and rescheduled in another country. Iran should not have even been on the list! They need to get to the bottom of who arranged that deal. Was it Russia?

 

[hazlnut]

The real issue here should be why do women have to have chess contests separate from the men.?? The answer is women are mentally inferior - but we're not allowed to say that.

Iran Demands US Champion Wear Hijab At World Competition, LOOK How She Instantly Responds

feb 22 2017 One American champion is voicing her opposition to “women’s oppression” by boycotting the women’s world chess championship in Iran rather than bow to Iranian demands that she wear a hijab, or headscarf.

“By participating, I would be forced to submit to forms of oppression designed specifically for women,” Nazí Paikidze insisted. “It sets the wrong example, particularly for young girls interested in chess.”

Paikidze, the current U.S. chess champion, could be competing for up to $100,000 in prize money. However, she has refused to attend the event.

Sometimes you're against women's rights, sometimes you're for them -- make up your friggin' mind.

 

[Goosey]

Women are mentally inferior!

 

[charwin95]

Why did the US Chess Federation permit a worldwide chess tournament to be held in Iran? Is that not the height of insanity? The minute that Iran tried to impose this rule on the competitors the US Chess Federation should have withdrawn the tournament and rescheduled in another country. Iran should not have even been on the list! They need to get to the bottom of who arranged that deal. Was it Russia?

I think it was the highest bidder. My guest is maybe they didn't know about this rule when they gave it to Iran.

 

[charwin95]

The real issue here should be why do women have to have chess contests separate from the men.?? The answer is women are mentally inferior - but we're not allowed to say that.

Iran Demands US Champion Wear Hijab At World Competition, LOOK How She Instantly Responds

feb 22 2017 One American champion is voicing her opposition to “women’s oppression” by boycotting the women’s world chess championship in Iran rather than bow to Iranian demands that she wear a hijab, or headscarf.

“By participating, I would be forced to submit to forms of oppression designed specifically for women,” Nazí Paikidze insisted. “It sets the wrong example, particularly for young girls interested in chess.”

Paikidze, the current U.S. chess champion, could be competing for up to $100,000 in prize money. However, she has refused to attend the event.

Good for her. The sad part is they will dethroned her but the tournament become worthless because they didn't play against the current champion.
Oh well. There will be another tournament next year.

 

[charwin95]

Chess is one of my favorite sports. My chess board is open, my iPad and cellphone is open all the time playing chess even when I'm here in USMB.
I go to Las Vegas at least 2x a year to play chess against the best.
There is an International Chess Event this June 14 to 18 this year to be held at Westgate in Las Vegas.
Every end of the year Dec. 26 to 30 there is a North American Open Chess tournament also in Las Vegas.

Wannabes like me play against grand masters not in the tournament but on the sides. We pay them somewhere from $25 to $50 for 15 minutes max per game but away from the tournament. That is a is a lot because they play very fast. There are no money in chess so this is the only they make money on the sides. So if a grand master play for 3 days that's quite a bit but they DO'NT get paid if they lose a game.
And they kick my ass all the time. Sometimes I won but my clock runs out so I still lose.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Sometimes you're against women's rights, sometimes you're for them -- make up your friggin' mind.

You feminists need to make up your mind. You say women are equal to men and yet you insist that women are not smart enough to compete with men at chess!! THINK

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Women are mentally inferior!

It appears that's what women believe. Why else do they demand sexually segregated chess?

 

[Mr Natural]

Sometimes you're against women's rights, sometimes you're for them -- make up your friggin' mind.

What mind?

 

[dani67]

 

[Goosey]

Women are mentally inferior!

It appears that's what women believe. Why else do they demand sexually segregated chess?

When this Bruce Jenner shit kicked up, they shit themselves. Stupid c*nts. What did they think would happen.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Chess is one of my favorite sports. My chess board is open, my iPad and cellphone is open all the time playing chess even when I'm here in USMB.
I go to Las Vegas at least 2x a year to play chess against the best.
There is an International Chess Event this June 14 to 18 this year to be held at Westgate in Las Vegas.
Every end of the year Dec. 26 to 30 there is a North American Open Chess tournament also in Las Vegas.

Wannabes like me play against grand masters not in the tournament but on the sides. We pay them somewhere from $25 to $50 for 15 minutes max per game but away from the tournament. That is a is a lot because they play very fast. There are no money in chess so this is the only they make money on the sides. So if a grand master play for 3 days that's quite a bit but they DO'NT get paid if they lose a game.
And they kick my ass all the time. Sometimes I won but my clock runs out so I still lose.

You must be a pretty strong player, Charwin.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Looks like a very oppressive atmosphere. I don't like it. CF boards were traditionally always the roll out chess board with the algebraic notation on the sides and bottom.

Tournament style roll out board w/ alg. notation and Staunton Style chess pieces..


Where are the clocks? I don't see them. What's with the women on the left all dressed in blue and the coach in blue? The room is painted the same blue. Is that the Iranian chess team? If so, I've got a huge problem with that. Second problem is the boards. Are the guests playing on that team's boards? It looks to me like they are. It also looks like the Iranians were looking for a psychological advantage / intimidating the guests to their country. Very poor judgment on the part of the Chess Federation. VERY.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

The real issue here should be why do women have to have chess contests separate from the men.?? The answer is women are mentally inferior - but we're not allowed to say that.

Iran Demands US Champion Wear Hijab At World Competition, LOOK How She Instantly Responds

feb 22 2017 One American champion is voicing her opposition to “women’s oppression” by boycotting the women’s world chess championship in Iran rather than bow to Iranian demands that she wear a hijab, or headscarf.

“By participating, I would be forced to submit to forms of oppression designed specifically for women,” Nazí Paikidze insisted. “It sets the wrong example, particularly for young girls interested in chess.”

Paikidze, the current U.S. chess champion, could be competing for up to $100,000 in prize money. However, she has refused to attend the event.

Good for her. The sad part is they will dethroned her but the tournament become worthless because they didn't play against the current champion.
Oh well. There will be another tournament next year.

Exactly. How can you have a tournament without the champion attending to have the opportunity to hold onto the title?

 

[dani67]

Looks like a very oppressive atmosphere. I don't like it. CF boards were traditionally always the roll out chess board with the algebraic notation on the sides and bottom.

Tournament style roll out board w/ alg. notation and Staunton Style chess pieces..


Where are the clocks? I don't see them. What's with the women on the left all dressed in blue and the coach in blue? The room is painted the same blue. Is that the Iranian chess team? If so, I've got a huge problem with that. Second problem is the boards. Are the guests playing on that team's boards? It looks to me like they are. It also looks like the Iranians were looking for a psychological advantage / intimidating the guests to their country. Very poor judgment on the part of the Chess Federation. VERY.

this picture isnt for this tournament
i think its friendly match

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Looks like a very oppressive atmosphere. I don't like it. CF boards were traditionally always the roll out chess board with the algebraic notation on the sides and bottom.

Tournament style roll out board w/ alg. notation and Staunton Style chess pieces..


Where are the clocks? I don't see them. What's with the women on the left all dressed in blue and the coach in blue? The room is painted the same blue. Is that the Iranian chess team? If so, I've got a huge problem with that. Second problem is the boards. Are the guests playing on that team's boards? It looks to me like they are. It also looks like the Iranians were looking for a psychological advantage / intimidating the guests to their country. Very poor judgment on the part of the Chess Federation. VERY.

this picture isnt for this tournament
i think its friendly match

Prior to the tournament? I call it for what it is. An intimidation tactic. Who is the man behind the girls in blue? Their coach? Who is the woman at the head of the table with the Iranian flag to her right? I call it as I see it. Intimidation / trying to get a psychological advantage before the game. Let's face it, Dani. The world's best players have never come from Iran. Chess requires imagination and when you live in an oppressive country it is very difficult to see ahead because your mind is fixated on what is going to happen over yesterday. Which is why Iran is not a nation known for inventions of cars / or any other major modern invention I can think of. I feel sorry for the Iranian people. It must be awful to live there. I'm sure they studied very hard for (to win) this tournament as if their lives depended on it (it may have). Still, imagination is greater than knowledge. Einstein said so.

 

[Vastator]

In chess... The clock is my opponent.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Women are mentally inferior!

It appears that's what women believe. Why else do they demand sexually segregated chess?

That presents the second problem because US Chess Federation tournaments are not segregated. When the rules of the CF are not followed the tournament is no longer legitimate. Technically this means that the current champion would hold her title. Until there is a legitimate tournament.

 

[dani67]

Looks like a very oppressive atmosphere. I don't like it. CF boards were traditionally always the roll out chess board with the algebraic notation on the sides and bottom.

Tournament style roll out board w/ alg. notation and Staunton Style chess pieces..


Where are the clocks? I don't see them. What's with the women on the left all dressed in blue and the coach in blue? The room is painted the same blue. Is that the Iranian chess team? If so, I've got a huge problem with that. Second problem is the boards. Are the guests playing on that team's boards? It looks to me like they are. It also looks like the Iranians were looking for a psychological advantage / intimidating the guests to their country. Very poor judgment on the part of the Chess Federation. VERY.

this picture isnt for this tournament
i think its friendly match

Prior to the tournament? I call it for what it is. An intimidation tactic. Who is the man behind the girls in blue? Their coach? Who is the woman at the head of the table with the Iranian flag to her right? I call it as I see it. Intimidation / trying to get a psychological advantage before the game. Let's face it, Dani. The world's best players have never come from Iran. Chess requires imagination and when you live in an oppressive country it is very difficult to see ahead because your mind is fixated on what is going to happen over yesterday. Which is why Iran is not a nation known for inventions of cars / or any other major modern invention I can think of. I feel sorry for the Iranian people. It must be awful to live there. I'm sure they studied very hard for (to win) this tournament as if their lives depended on it (it may have). Still, imagination is greater than knowledge. Einstein said so.

Firouz Michael Naderi

is an Iranian-American scientist who spent more than 30 years in various technical and executive positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he contributed to some of America's most iconic robotic space missions. He retired from NASA in 2016 and currently is a management consultant, an advisor to early-stage high-tech startups, and a public speaker.

you are propaganda victim . im sorry for you.

List of Iranian Americans - Wikipedia

Academia/Science[edit]

• Alexander Abian, mathematician
• Sarkis Acopian, inventor, industrialist, environmentalist, and humanitarian
• Shahriar Afshar, physicist, namesake of Afshar experiment
• Siavash Alamouti, CTO Broad Band and INTEL fellow, inventor of Alamouti Code, code-communication engineer
• Abass Alavi, Professor of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and neurology; University of Pennsylvania.[1]
• Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies at Yale University
• Nima Arkani-Hamed, physicist from Harvard
• Shaul Bakhash, historian, expert in Iranian studies, George Mason University, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History
• Mina Bissell, scientist and biologist, LBL
• George Bournoutian, professor, historian, and author
• Houchang Chehabi, historian, expert in Iranian studies, Boston University
• Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City[2]
• Richard Danielpour, Professor of Composition, Manhattan School of Music
• Touraj Daryaee, Iranologist
• Sibel Edmonds, former translator who worked as a contractor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC)
• Nader Engheta, Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
• Haleh Esfandiari, Middle East Scholar
• Nariman Farvardin, Provost of University of Maryland
• Bobak Ferdowsi, Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the Cassini–Huygens and Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission
• Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Ali Hajimiri, inventor, technologist, and Thomas G. Myers Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech
• Babak Hassibi, Gordon M. Binder/AMGEN Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech
• Payam Heydari, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Irvine[3]
• Hamid Jafarkhani, leading communication theorist University of California, Irvine.[4]
• Ramin Jahanbegloo, philosopher at University of Toronto
• Ali Javan, physicist, inventor of gas laser, Professor Emeritus of Physics at MIT
• Sepandar Kamvar, computer scientist, Stanford University
• Mehran Kardar, physicist, MIT.[5]
• Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Founding Director of Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland.[6]
• Homayoon Kazerooni, professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley,[7] Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Berkeley Bionics,[8] inventor of the HULC
• Ali Khademhosseini, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering [9]
• G. A. Mansoori, professor of chemical engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago
• Bahram Mashhoon, General Relativity physicist
• Robert Mehrabian, President of Carnegie Mellon
• Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University.
• Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University Professor the first female winner of Fields Medal
• Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design[10]
• Hamid Mowlana, Director of the Division of International Communication at American University[11]
• Firouz Naderi, NASA director of Mars project.[12]
• Majid M. Naini (مجید نایینی), computer scientist, former Professor at University of Pennsylvania, Rumi scholar, writer, poet, translator, speaker[13]
• Kayvan Najarian, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher. He is the author of many scholarly books and articles
• Vali Nasr, a leading expert on Middle East and Islamic world, a best-selling author, influential commentator and Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution, and a columnist for Bloomberg View
• Camran Nezhat, Director, Stanford Endoscopy Center for Training & Technology.
• Kaveh Pahlavan, Professor of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Gholam A. Peyman, Inventor of LASIK eye surgery
• Nader Pourmand, Professor of biomolecular engineering at the Baskin School of Engineering
• Majid Rafizadeh, political scientist scholar at Harvard University
• Behzad Razavi, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
• Nouriel Roubini, one of the leading economists of our age, professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University and chairman of RGE Monitor
• Pardis Sabeti, world-renowned computational geneticist, Associate Professor at Harvard University
• Omid Safi, Professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina and advocate of reform within Islam
• Ahmad Salehi, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,[14] in Palo Alto, California
• David B. Samadi, vice Chairman of the Department of Urology and Chief of Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai [15]
• Homayoun Seraji, Senior Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory[16]
• Ghavam Shahidi, IBM Fellow, Director of Silicon Technology
• Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Professor, California State University,[17] Founding Editor, Global Finance Journal and Executive Director, Global Finance Association,[18]
• Ray Takeyh, Middle East Scholar and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
• Kamran Talattof, Persian Literature and Iranian Culture, Director of Persian Program University of Arizona
• Vahid Tarokh, leading communication theorist Harvard University.[19]
• Cumrun Vafa, String theorist in Harvard
• Saba Valadkhan, Biomedical scientist, awarded with the Young Scientist Award
• Ehsan Yarshater, Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Director of Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University,[20] Founder and Editor in Chief of Encyclopaedia Iranica
• Lotfi A. Zadeh, mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley; father of Fuzzy Logic
• Reza Zadeh, Computer Scientist at Stanford University
• Mark Zandi, economist and co-founder of Economy.com, now part of Moody's Analytics
• Doreen Granpeesheh, clinical psychologist and producer of the independent award-winning documentary Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back