Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen Returns to Tournament After Dispute Over Jeans Is Resolved

Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen Returns to Tournament After Dispute Over Jeans Is Resolved
Magnus Carlsen arrives at the ninth Breakthrough Prize ceremony at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on April 15, 2023. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
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NEW YORK—Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is headed back to the World Blitz Championship on Monday after its governing body agreed to loosen a dress code that got him fined and denied a late-round game in another tournament for refusing to change out of jeans.

Lamenting the contretemps, International Chess Federation President Arkady Dvorkovich said in a statement Sunday that he'd let World Blitz Championship tournament officials consider allowing “appropriate jeans” with a jacket, and other “elegant minor deviations” from the dress code.