See what is right and change what is wrong

Read this again. We have many things going right. Hamid is in the right place now. He is our best tournament director. Greg is in the right place. He is starting to put in systems. Not well thought through but better than what we had before. He is new and he gets frightened easily. Maybe this blog can do him some good. Too many imagined fears. But we saw some steel in the Olympiad. So there is hope yet.

We have Jimmy and Rationality giving of their technical expertise. That is also good. So they are bitter and negative. Thats OK. We dont expect them to be our next GM. So there is good there too if we look for it.

We have good blogs giving information about bad tournaments and reporting on International events. All these things are good.

But we have a bad culture; we seek to tear each other down. We are sabotaging ourselves. Read this again.

We want our way or the highway. Either/Or. We are scared to examine where we have gone wrong. Dato Tan has left the stage, so we all sit down and cry. Thinking if we cry long enough another saviour will come. This is self destructive. See and appreciate what we have and change what is wrong.

In fact if you dare, see where Dato's millions have lead us to.

Use every available resource. Use Ziaur when he is here. Learn to talk to sponsors. When they ask for postmortems dont run and play hide and seek. Answer their questions and seek to improve. Change the things that are wrong and we will see improvement. But dont throw out the things that are working. Do this for the next generation if its too late for you.

Let go of the past, the anger. That is why you cannot see the present. That is the cause of your self sabotage. Doesnt chess teach you that?

Malaysia Boleh. Of course we can.