If they have to hide the Olympiad team?

Ref: Here.

If they have to hide selection criteria, it shows there is hanky panky. If they have to silence a voice of dissent it shows there is hanky panky and in actuality drives more readers to his site because people like to know what you are hiding from them. (Especially if the dissent is reasonable and well argued).

If they need to hide the Malaysian chess squad from the Malaysian chess public, it shows there is hanky panky.

It is known that there are many other interests in selection. Some want it to win votes and allegiance, some want their child/player to get in the backdoor, some just want to play God and show how superior they are from the rest of us mere mortals.

In chess we do have a way to get rid of most biasness. A proper selection criteria based on a proper selection tournament. Then we take the politics out of chess. Then Malaysian chess advances.

Can you see better now why the current system and MCF committee needs to be changed? And why proper rules need to be put in. This has been how they managed to kill off many of our best players in the past. Favoritism. (It's only the weak players that need favoritism, need manufactured numbers).

But let me define favoritism further here to get a clearer picture. Favoritism means arbitrary selection among the deserving players. Let us use NC2012 for an example. It means the top 4. They are all deserving. They all fought hard and after winning, their place can be taken away because someone else has a "deal".

And so now we risk Syazwan and Eng Chiam if they are not chosen. Would they fight as hard next year? Will they prepare knowing that even if they win, their place can go to someone with the deal; someone with a PR campaign. This is not chess. How many players have we lost this way over the years?

If we go further we can also see that that manufactured rating is not a criteria, titles is not a proper criteria. They may be rusty, not current and just playing lousy that year due to other reasons. Or they may just have a bad attitude and think they deserve to play just because of a title and treat the Olympiad as a holiday.

That is why I say that if they cannot bother to fight in selection and show us they mean business then we are better off without them.

ps: If Li Tian does leap frog Syazwan and Eng Chiam, then I think Chin Seng should not accept or risk losing entirely any credibility he has left with the chess community. This is different from Dato Tan's sponsorship to China. That was your private affair.

This time you will be showing your arrogance in thinking you can grab from someone's mouth what they have earned honestly.

MCF belongs to all the chess players and not the private reserve of a few deal makers. Improve your chess and accept your loss graciously. The results simply show you are not good enough yet. Go back and practice. And maybe get a better trainer and a good mind coach. A PR manager is not the way. You are simply not there yet.