What if I refuse to handshake in an event?

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Fr3nchToastCrunch

What if one of the players is a germaphobe? Obviously they can't be blamed for that

cl0udnotfound
Just shake their hand and jerk it down, hard.
DreamscapeHorizons

Just pick ur nose or scratch ur butt with that hand first & make sure they see u doing it, then offer ur hand.

Crowatecashew

Break the wrist, walk away.

Crowatecashew

Or you could offer them your autograph...

Knightfall081
Wipe with that hand first but don’t wash. Then shake his hand
sigma
These suggestions are crazy lol
Ironguard5s

then call the arbiter and say that your opponent doesn't wanna shake hands

nah

They probably wont make a big deal of it, but it's still so mean imo

Ironguard5s

or u know what another Idea is to high-five

DreamscapeHorizons
MatrixDog wrote:
These suggestions are crazy lol

U just gotta do whatcha gotta do.

Ironguard5s

or u could maybe even fist-punch them

Ironguard5s
Ironguard5s wrote:

or u could maybe even fist-punch them

Oh an even better idea is fist-punch them in the face! grin.png

finnisthecoolestfr

finnisthecoolestfr

do this with elbow

EnCrossiantIsBrilliant
sawdof wrote:
BISHOP_e3 wrote:

Fart while you shake their hand

Is that deflection or a discovered attack?

neither its attraction

paintoe62

It depends if you are Carlsen or somebody else. If Carlsen, FIDE will bend the rule to whatever Carlsen wants otherwise FIDE will take action

TheCatPawnForever
Rub the bone below their pinky when u shake their hand. It hurts a lot!
Crowatecashew

shake long and hard

Mazetoskylo
Optimissed wrote:
GMParanoid wrote:

What if I have a rival whom I don't really like much in real life and I don't want to make a handshake with him and I refuse the handshake. What can fide do to me? Will the ban me like they did to sergey? Can my opponent complain about it to arbiters?

Handshaking isn't part of chess rules imo. This came in around the last year I was playing tournament chess, less than 25 years ago. The T.D. was requesting everyone shake their opponents' hand. How completely childish and bad mannered!

I complied at the time. Perhaps I wouldn't now. Enforced politeness is false.

FIDE ruling
Behavioural norms of players in chess events

Having discussed several recent cases in different chess tournaments where the attitude of players toward their opponent or officials, journalists etc. was not acceptable under conventional social behaviour, the FIDE Presidential Board – at the suggestion of President Ilyumzhinov – decided on setting up strict rules regarding such behaviour.

Any player who does not shake hands with the opponent (or greets the opponent in a normal social manner in accordance with the conventional rules of their society) before the game starts in a FIDE tournament or during a FIDE match (and does not do it after being asked to do so by the arbiter) or deliberately insults his/her opponent or the officials of the event, will immediately and finally lose the relevant game.

Regarding a more comprehensive set of behavioural and ethical norms to be followed, FIDE Ethics Commission and the Arbiter’s Council are to elaborate guidelines for the players. The guidelines will be published on the FIDE website.

This ruling came out some 16 years ago, after an incident between Ivan Cheparinov and Nigel Short.