This is the dress she was wearing (Picture: Facebook/Kaushal Kal)

A 12-year-old girl was forced to withdraw from a chess tournament because her outfit – a knee-length cotton child’s dress – was deemed ‘too seductive’.

Posting on Facebook, chess coach Kaushal Kandhar expressed his shock and outrage at what transpired at the tournament in Putrajaya.

He said the girl was left ‘extremely embarrassed’ and ‘disturbed’ when the National Scholastic Chess Championship director and chief arbiter made the comments to her in the middle of a match.

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‘The tournament director deemed my student’s dress to be “seductive” and a “temptation from a certain angle far, far away”,’ Kal wrote. ‘We found this statement completely out of line!’




Kal said that the director told the girl and her mother that they needed to go to the mall and by her a pair of trousers – but by that time it was already 10pm, and the matches the next day restarted at 9am.

Because they weren’t able to get a replacement outfit in time the girl – who was a regional champion in Kuala Lumpur – had to pull out of the competition.

DEAR MALAYSIAN CHESS COMMUNITY,I heard the most disturbing incident from one of my student’s mother.At the National… Posted by Kaushal Kal on Thursday, April 27, 2017

‘This incident has resulted in loss of time and money which was invested before, during and after the tournament on coaching, registration fees, travelling, accommodation and other incurred cost.

‘This bright young girl was recently the champion of her district in MSS Kuala Lumpur and has shown tremendous potential in chess.

‘This incident has left her extremely disturbed, and embarrassed.’

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He added that he had been playing chess in Malaysia for almost 20 years, and had ‘never heard of this type of issue in any tournaments’ in the country.

‘This should be the first and last time this kind of issue ever appears,’ he said, before demanding an official apology from the championship.

A Malaysian Chess Federation spokesman told Malay Mail Online that the tournament secretariat is currently investigating the incident.

He claimed that the official complaint lodged by the girl’s mother differed slightly from Kal’s account, but would not divulge any information for legal reasons.