Psych evaluation of Jimmy Liew.

Ref: Here.

It's a psychological truism that those in intense psychological pain is unable to see the pain they inflict on others.

It will be most instructive if we can understand the psychological profile of this individual for many reasons. One is that it is a good case study of the type of psychological damage that can be inflicted on a competitive chess player when we send him out time and time again without proper training and support. The mind is battered again and again with no possible solution.

The other reason is that Jimmy is now the front spokesperson and willing catspaw of an agenda to keep Malaysian chess from progressing. By this study I hope we can learn to recognise their modus operandi and the underlying motives.

So lets examine 2 situations today. One was the training of the Asean Juniors 2010. For most of us we see that as a positive move forward. A training by a GM. A training before we send our kids out to compete thus increasing our chance of success. Initally there was even an offer to train our trainers, to offer the training of using chessbase as used by a GM. And that training was offered for free.

But what did Jimmy perceive? We saw him starting out blog after blog, writing non stop anonymous comments praising himself and casting lies after lies about the training. Even after repeated attempts by FGM to clarify matters the venom continued. So we can safely assume that it was not the truth that Jimmy wanted but something else.

Now if we use situational analysis as described in the link above we will find that the toxic responses is completely inappropriate. In fact it is the very opposite reaction of what anyone who would want to see improvements in the game of our Juniors would perceive.

The other situation is the SEA games training of Sumant and Zhuo Ren at my house last year. Now why would that also elicit so much hostility? If they don't agree with my methods then a quiet word with Zhuo Ren to ask him to tell me that he was no longer interested would have sufficed to solve the issue; if it was Zhuo Ren they were really worried about. In their panic to attack my training did they for one moment consider what they were doing to Zhuo Ren in forcing him to write that very public attack on me and FGM?

And it didn't even stop there. The attack continued on Sumant till he too was finally forced to make a public apology to ghosts.

If we apply situational analysis to this again we can see that training for a selection should be normal. So why is this "normal" event causing that type of reaction?

The only conclusion I can form is that Jimmy is totally petrified of competition by the Juniors. He knows that his reputation is built on cleverly created myths to fool others into thinking he is a ferrari when actually in today's chess world he is only a kancil or maybe even a kup chai.

True he may still be one of the stronger players in Malaysia today. Today we are a nation of kancil chess players. But we are a nation of kancil chess players not because we are not talented and gifted. We are a nation of kancil players because Jimmy and his friends have actively made sure that no strong players can emerge.

Note: Have you noticed that Jimmy avoids playing in a strong International field in Individual events? Why does he play in veteran and team events only? We have a combined event for Datmo this year. So it is one big event. He will not be able to play an isolated field if he goes. Hopefully this event will bring strong players from the region to play for the individual rapid. We will be going. Maybe Jimmy can play in this event if there is a strong field to show us that I have him pegged totally wrong. Where would he land in a strong field playing 11 rounds individual rapid? Not perfect but still an indicator.

But if I am right, then we will be sending someone to the Olympiad who cannot take even the smallest pressure of perceived threats from the training of the Juniors. If he can crack and totally lose it because I was training the juniors then I won't give him much chances in Turkey; 5 Star Hotel or Not.

Next: The probable climate our players will face at the Olympiad. Clue. Fear transmits.