The difference between MSSM and MCF.

Every year there will be someone who attacks MSSM. So lets do some comparisons here so we know if whether the criticisms are valid.

MSSM is a separate entity with its own budget created by MOE to run a large number of sport events. So it is not a specialist organisation. Furthermore as part of the educational system they have to compete with the school calender for dates and use overworked teachers to run and organise events.

I have worked with the PT of Perak to find suitable dates as well as to organise the training for our MSSM players in the past. So I can understand why sometimes the selection process is faulty. It is hard to even get dates to play 20 min events. And MSSM is a 45 minutes a side game.

Furthermore MSSM is only an inter Sate event. So what the States are trying to achieve is to be the best State in the Country. So you see some PT's like Selangor and KL have very broad powers unlike other States. They have brought in players from outside selection in their attempts to compensate for the difficulties of working within a system as huge as MOE.

So sometimes I feel the criticisms made by people associated with MCF is totally unfair. MCF is a specialist body with none of those constraints. It's job is to prepare our players for International Tournaments. MSSM gives MCF a lot of value by working the base at the ground level, at the schools.

Ingratitude and an attempt to divert attention from their own inadequacies. 

What MCF officials should be doing is ask why there is no training before going out for overseas tournaments? Continue to improve their own selection process. Stop attacking slightly older good players to divert attention back to the 12 and 13 year olds in order to hide their failures.

MCF runs chess all year round so they have specialist knowledge and experience. But their funds are leaking away into private hands. They do not train our players properly before they go overseas and they attack any attempt by others to do so.

Simply put. Look at the logs in your own eyes before you see the splinter in others.

MCF, fix your own house instead of back stabbing others. Stop trying to compare apples and oranges. The 2 organisations have different goals. So MCF stick to your own goal, if you have worked out what it is. Use the energy to improve instead.