World Youth U16 Olympiad.

Look here and see some of the potential future faces of the next Malaysian senior team.

Now remember this. A crown given to you is a crown that can be taken away. "Game of Thrones".

So your place in the senior team should not be one earned by a PR campaign and manufactured numbers or one given as a reward for writing an email. Both of these methods contain poison. Trust me. The poison will work eventually for the crown was not earned. And so they have given you the reward of future self doubt and insecurities. And under pressure it will all come out.

Go and take a look at the MCF criteria for the U16 Olympiad. Here. Now take a note of this too. The parents will be paying for the substantial part of this trip. So all parents of National Juniors are investing for the future of Malaysian Chess. And let me tell you that the amounts we spend is not small.

Now also note that FGM as the organiser and the trainer of our National Junior Team for Asean 2010 also invested in the future of Malaysian Chess.

Now we have all heard the words of abuse hurled at me, calling me a dog etc. Consider this. A dog is a loyal animal that is generally thought of as incapable of feeding itself. Now lets ask if the parents and FGM has taken one cent from any of these people or we have paid them instead. So in actuality we have been and still are feeding them. Isn't the story of the dog biting the hand that feeds it a more accurate representation of the current situation? So in the real story who is the dog?

We have invested and will continue to invest for the future of Malaysian chess. Is it clearer now? All those funny people shouting and making noises have benefited from our money and our effort and not vice versa.

That means we have a right to question when things go wrong. We can ask why are you guys abusing and taking advantage of our investments, of the money we have spent and are continuing to spend.

Now the question I want to ask you today is what has happened to our U18 team? Consider this. All the the boys you see on Peter Long's site above are still learning and are no real challenge to our IM's yet. They will get there eventually but not yet. The U18 team previously were much closer. And I think FGM showed what can be achieved with just a little more tweaking from the experience of our last SEA games selection.

Do you remember what happened to them when they tried to challenge for their place in healthy competition? If we don't change things soon at the next AGM, will the same thing also happen to those boys you now see on Peter's blog; when they become a real threat; once they have learnt enough.

I will talk more about our Olympiad team next. Have a good weekend.