Highlights 1 US chess champion Nazi Paikidze declared she'll boycott world championship in Iran. 2 Her boycott is a protest against Iran making women wearing hijab compulsory. Nazi Paikidze, a US chess champion, is making headlines more for her ideaology than her game. Nazi declared that she will boycott the world championship in Iran because she thinks nobody can force her to wear a hijab and thinks it's against basic fundamental rights of a woman to be forced. Emil Sutovsky, President of Association of Chess Professionals, wrote a Facebook post about FIDE's statement amid protest over the venue and its socio-cultural requisites.

Source: India Today October 10, 2016 11:26 UTC