I once managed to play Shohreh Bayat in a friendly OTB game and I just noted that she was a really friendly person who was nice to talk to; soon after, my friend (who had seen me playing against her) found a picture of her online, and we soon discovered that for some reason whenever you searched up 'chess arbiter/referee' she was the top result (in bing, google etc images at the time, it seems now on google she's moved to the 2nd position when I search her up) and there weren't many other people on the top images. So, we remembered her as the 'only chess arbiter in the world' and mostly just moved on from the topic.
I would have never thought that something like this would have happened to her, and I never realised/found out what the situation in Iran and chess was like. This whole hijab story sounds ridiculous, it's no wonder all the players from the 2014 Iranian Women's Chess Olympiad team have left now. And all this happened to Shohreh because of 5cm of hair.
All women should be treated equally. Like Ziomp9 said:
> I hope it will go better for the different Iranian chess players.
I would have never thought that something like this would have happened to her, and I never realised/found out what the situation in Iran and chess was like. This whole hijab story sounds ridiculous, it's no wonder all the players from the 2014 Iranian Women's Chess Olympiad team have left now. And all this happened to Shohreh because of 5cm of hair.
All women should be treated equally. Like Ziomp9 said:
> I hope it will go better for the different Iranian chess players.