Cycle of abuse by Marina Mahathir.

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I wrote about how to unmake the bully in you. Here.  Marina's article shows how bullies are created in the first place. So I hope you will reflect on the 2 articles and then look again at our own chess environment. We have extremely talented kids and they will enter the mainstream of Malaysian society at some point in positions of influence. Whether they will become part of the solution of bringing Malaysia forward or become part of the problem that we are now seeing will depend very much on whether we nurture them or we abuse them.

Note: We cannot protect them all their lives but we need to ensure that they are equipped to handle themselves; learn how to solve problems and how to get real results when they are still young. The way we are doing things now breaks them before they are ready and creates the next generation of bullies.

This is not about putting anyone down. All we are asking for is responsibility by the governing bodies of chess to putting in proper guidelines and rules.