Why the candidate President's speech is important.

Chess has taught us that we will not get ahead without a plan. And plans are from the head. So we need to hear what the plan is so we will also have fighting players at tournaments like this. Here.

It is also important so that we can hold the President to his Vision, to his promise. But if the President just "parachutes" into the post while we are all sleeping, then he can say I promised you nothing. And then we will have nothing.

A good culture is that the full committee in all the affiliates meet to determine where the State stands on the election. What the State wants from MCF. This stand should be representative of what the entire State want and not from the views of one man/woman. Then the delegate to MCF's AGM is authorised to vote in the interest of the State.

An aside: In the case of KLCA, maybe Peter can have a chat with himself. Otherwise KL will not be properly represented.

For without this meeting, where would the authority come from?

Ideally the discussion should not look like this too. See comments here. A popular slogan we use is that chess makes our kids smart. So we should be showing off what we advertise. Intelligent problem solving and not the mud slinging that have kept us backward for so many years.

With a plan headed by intelligent people and with the amazing talent that Malaysia is blessed with, we will become an unstoppable force in the International chess arena and be an example to the Nation on how we can get ahead by joining a thinking sport.

And all this will start with the Presidents speech.