Our friends can do no wrong and our "enemies" can do no right.

This seems to be the dominant culture in Malaysian chess. And chess is about judgement and decision making. And so we see the blind and unthinking followers of Jimmy.

They cannot see that an attack on the training for the juniors is an attack on Malaysian chess. They cannot see that the effect of this, is that the following year parents had to pay much more each without training and this takes away our collective resources.

They are unable to see the sacrifices of the parents. They are unable to see the attack on Zhuo Ren and later Sumant orchestrated by Jimmy Liew. In fact they help. No sense of right and wrong. No character.

They help with Greg closing an eye. Maybe even colluding. Peter tried to help by trying to ban Mark. Najib joins the band wagon and try to talk about why he is the better trainer even though he only teaches 6 to 8 yr olds and has obviously no idea what high level competitive chess is about as a player. Then he talks about banning too. Ref: Here.

If we are to bring up strong players in Malaysia, we need them to develop good judgement. And their judgement must be able to withstand psychological attacks too. For that is also chess.

I talked about responsibility here.

Response ability is the opposite of reaction. That means we use judgement, weigh issues and then decide. It is not knee jerk. That is also chess. And in the final sense also what professional conduct is about. So Najib, it is more than a piece of paper and some knowledge. Responsibility and fair judgement is what arbitering is all about.

And that is what we need to teach our kids. And the best is by example. Look at this again.

But to give Greg, Peter and you the benefit of the doubt, I still think you are in the first category of the 2 situations I mentioned in the link above.

But I seriously think that Jimmy has totally crossed the line. Every action of his is premeditated to do harm and to destroy. If you can see that, then you are well on your way to improvement.

Look and see how this type of thinking transmits to the players. Zhuo Ren could not see that Mok was the easiest IM to take down where all the other juniors could. His judgement was affected. His confidence was taken away. He could no longer see opportunities. This affected his results. Blind following of weak people does that to you.

So breakout and help Malaysian chess improve. Strengthen your mind. And the GM will come. Reject that weak culture by changing yourself. And when you yourself are strong you too will raise strong players. Isn't that a worthwhile goal?

The correct way is to tell your friends, if they are genuine friends, that they have done wrong if they have done wrong. And to accept the things that are right even by "enemies".

Isn't that correct? If you cannot do that can we trust you to be an arbiter? On what will you base your judgements on? Think on it.