“Male Kenyan Chess Player Disguises as Woman in International Open: Scandal and Suspension”

2023-04-16 14:27:16

Omondi, a 25-year-old male chess player from Kenya, played under the guise of a woman. (Picture / Reposted from Twitter)

Internet memes come true! Stanley Omondi, a 25-year-old Kenyan man, successfully entered the local Women’s Chess International Open by wearing a full-body burqa, wearing ultra-thick black-framed glasses and registering a female pseudonym, and achieved very good results.but in the end because ofToo good at chess and wearing masculine shoesHe was caught and faced a suspension of several years.

According to the “BBC” report, the organizers were initially amazed by the chess skills of a rookie female chess player named Millicent Awour, but as “she” continued to use skills far beyond the rookies, they never told anyone With just one word, I began to suspect that experienced chess players disguised themselves as rookies to compete, and finally confirmed that Millicent was a male chess player wearing women’s clothing by relying on masculine shoes.

Ormondi disguises herself as a woman for the winning prize. (Picture / Reposted from Twitter)

However, beyond the expectations of the organizers, the man under the mask turned out to be a well-known local chess player Omondi. Since there has never been a man disguised as a woman in the Kenyan chess world, and if Omondi wearing a burqa is immediately expelled If he played, he might bear the infamy of “religious discrimination”, so he had to let Ormondi finish the round before asking him to leave.

The organizer revealed that Ormondi apologized afterwards and said that he had to dress up as a woman because of financial difficulties, because there were more than 400 people participating in the men’s and women’s teams of the Open, but only 99 people signed up for the women’s team, and the winning prize was more than 3,000 US dollars. (about NT$91,000). The president of the Kenya Chess Association said Ormondi could be banned for a few years, but not permanently.

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