Debate can now switch to Najib's site.

Thank you Najib for allowing the debate on your site. To follow the rest of the debate pls go here.

I hope others will join in too. Real people not anonymous wrecker.

ps: Maybe not. I dont think much of the quality of the debate there. He laughs in the face of serious questions rather than trying to reply. I guess it's hard to break a 30 year old habit. A little like Nero who played the fiddle while Rome burnt?

A good debate.

Here.

A technical evaluation of title contenders.

I am of course especially interested in the evaluation for the U18 boys. My argument has always been about nurturing the fighting spirit vs strictly technical but killing the drive, putting down the players, playing favoritism and fixing matches.

See here for the evaluation. NAG will be a good test of ideas. I too am curious what the result will be but I find this evaluation insufficient. This is exciting.

The hungry factor.

Andrew has come into the debate. This is good. Read here

My views are of course different. I dont think we can compare with say China or another other Country. Our conditions are different and so we must tailor our solutions differently. Read here.

To do that we need to evaluate correctly what our problems are. (Bangladesh can get GM's; richer nations can get GM's.)

Personally I think selection was part of the solution. And if MCF can now act against errant Officials and/or Associations money will start pouring back into chess. And we too can have our own GMs. And not only one. The trust of people who can help is key. Good governance is key.