Grandmaster’s move

After years of grinding out victories at tournaments, chess player Magnus Carlsen can’t be bothered to dress up anymore. On Dec. 27, the Norwegian grandmaster walked away from the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York when event organizers told him his jeans were not up to the tournament’s dress code. “I put on a shirt, jacket, and honestly like I didn’t even think about the jeans. I even changed my shoes,” he told chess outlet Take Take Take. After his request to continue playing in jeans was denied, Carlsen walked out. “It’s fine by me,” he later said. “I’ll probably head off to somewhere where the weather is a bit nicer than here.” Soon after the incident, however, organizers of the next tournament loosened the dress code and Carlsen returned to play.