Asian Youth in Subic Bay.

Now that that SEA games selection is over and the dust has settled, it is time for FGM to set its sights on Asian Youth. This will be our second outing of this nature, the first being Asean last year. The field for Asian is much broader than Asean and includes India and China. So this will be an interesting experience for us. I hope the lessons we have learnt at Selangor Open as well as from our training sessions with Sumant for SEA games will give us good returns at Asian Youth. I believe we have all grown from the recent experience.

My best wishes to the Malaysian contingent going to Subic Bay for Asian Youth from May 14th to the 22nd.

An example.

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Final result- SEA games selection

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Sumant Subramaniam qualifies for SEA games.

Congratulations Sumant. Well done.

Other games from SEA games selection.

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Sumant vs Mok, SEA games selection.

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Mature and courageous play Sumant. Keep it up. Good luck for today.

SEA games selection

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Fide candidate matches 2011

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Today's Contemplation.

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." ~ Melody Beattie

Back from Selangor Open

It's good that the Selangor Open gives us enough time to fix our lines before Asian Youth. The games with Shreyes, Abdul Rahim Ramli, IM Srinath and FM Nicholas Chan gave us new insights to some of the flaws in our openings. I am sure that the Asian Youth will unveil new flaws but if we fix as much as we can, as best as we can, here and now, it will optimise what we can learn there.

On the flip side, we have new found confidence in the lines that held against tough opponents.

We were fortunate to get to play with both IM Srinath and FM Nicholas. This gives us a better sense of the gap. Also it is much cheaper to learn here than to go all the way to Philippines for those lessons.