How do we move to the next level?

Lets face facts, focusing on the age groups alone does not make much sense in terms of return on investment as far as the perspective of the Nation goes. Let me try to reason out why.

Look at all the age group players now. I can assure you that many won't be there when they reach the end of their junior days ie. U20. In the age groups they are still experimenting, still learning. Seeing only parts of the whole that they will need to move to being in a position to challenge on the International arena for titles and the appropriate rating in the current International circuit.

Note: Their rating will be true for the time as they are fighting up the ladder. This is very different from those that got their rating from ancient history and have manipulated the retention of high numbers from playing in select tournaments etc.


And so the age group players, talented as they are, will drop out from attrition, change of priorities etc. So I hope we can see that it is only those that do well at the U20's that provide our best hope of return on investment. They have lasted the race. They are almost ready. So all we have to do it to pit them against the senior team. And then 2 things will happen.

One, the senior team gets current knowledge from the juniors fighting in todays world. And two, the juniors get to learn from the experience of the seniors. From this interaction we can move to the next level. Iron sharpen iron.

This seems to me to be the apparent truth.

But what are we seeing? When they get older, they are dropped (attacked). We send out players one at a time for junior events ie U20. We should be sending out a big contingent of juniors as well. Not just age groups.

And then we only allow one place from selection to join the senior team. Why are we protecting those that are outdated today? Why can't they be selected from healthy competition?

Why is MCF sabotaging the progress of Malaysian chess by supporting the people who attempts to "ban" our players without genuine grounds? Why are they rewarding those that spread lies, hate etc and use PR campaigns to get certain players in?

Why indeed unless they are being rewarded for work well done. So does this show collusion? What does all this show about the true agenda of MCF?

ps: At the time of writing I am informed by my sources that there is no official confirmation of players yet for the Olympiad. But there are rumours. So lets wait and see.