Astro Team event results.

Ref: Here.

Take a look at the fools again. They claim they are both Malaysian and State Team. Trying for both prizes. Are they really a State Team? Is that fair to the other States? I think the organisers should do something about this. Their non action will reflect badly on the sponsors. And Datmo has a full organising committee of luminaries.

And all these shananigans coming from the fool guy who talks so much about ethics. Doesn't that just make him a bald faced outright liar?

Note: Do check out Nicholas's performance against those that are going to the Olympiad.

ps: Incredible. They have just removed the detailed board results. Are they so afraid of us seeing how Jimmy fared at R5 onwards? Yes he is back after saying he wont be present. So there are 2 fools gone mad now. I hope you did well against the 1600 in R5, Jimmy. 

Or maybe they are just afraid to let Nicholas shine for us all to see. How much lower can you guys get?

MCF AGM

When is MCF having their AGM? Why all this secrecy? Even political parties tell their own members when their AGM is. MCF is behaving more like a communist cell. So what are you really MCF?

I remember that when they wanted to sack me at PICA, they chose the date for the meeting when they knew that I was in KL for a chess tournament. But why do this? Afterall we are in the same committee and we are all doing it for the love of chess.

So you see, they have perfected the art of sabotage over many years. I can only postulate that they want to spring a surprise AGM. Make sure certain people are not present. Somebody said the AGM was in March. But still no announcement.

This sounds like deep conspiracy. Maybe there are really some huge mega bucks in this. Even political parties announce their AGM early. Why so scared? What do you have to hide? We are all doing it for the love of chess. If you are so scared then how are you going to get us that GM? By running away? By playing hide and seek? Chor Tai Tee? Is that how you compete?

Tin cup

I watched a movie on mental coaching on my way to KL by train recently. The movie is called "Tin Cup" with Kevin Costner in it. The movie brings up many aspects of mental coaching. Too many to discuss here. But essentially it shows the journey of a technically proficient golfer who kept sabotaging himself with bad attitude and a negative mindset.

Do try to see if you can get your hands on the movie. Decide for yourself if there are any parallels to chess. All my best in your chess journey.

The next battle ground. SEA games.

Here.

Here.

Wishing our senior team a strong fighting spirit.

UTP Tomorrow.

Would be good to test out some new ideas tomorrow. See you guys there.

All actions are driven by a core belief system.

It's not the belief system that one espouses but the one that is deep inside. Once you can see that then random actions stop being random.

Lim Zhuo Ren at world juniors.

Game here.

How to beat strong opponents.

Here.

Asian Junior- Update

Here.

Winning a Tournament.

We have 2 important International events coming up. Malaysia Open and the KL Open. Almost 3 months to go. So we have time to not only discuss this but hopefully also do something about it.

Winning a game and winning a Tournament are two different things. That is why we need to know the field to help us determine the strategy for the Tournament. Whether we are playing for a placing or playing for rating.

In a Tournament we also have to plan for conservation of energy. That is why planning our openings well before each game is important. Winning with less strain because we found the correct opening or know our opening well will allow us to have reserve energy for tougher games ahead.

All of these things need to be considered before the Tournament day itself. If you have done your competitor analysis you will be able to prioritise your preparation. Which weapons to sharpen first.

So use the Thematics we designed for you to do well in those Tournaments. All my best in your chess development.

Good luck at Asian Junior Sumant.

Sumant Subramaniam of Malaysia will be travelling to Sri Langka for the U20 Asian Junior starting on the 1st June. FGM is setting up a remote support system to give him as much help as we can. I am hoping that the lessons Sumant and us learnt over the SEA games training and our lessons at Asian Youth will be helpful to him at this Tournament. Good luck Sumant and give it your best shot. Our best wishes go with you.

Direct link to Asian Youth coverage.

Here.

Asian Youth reports. May 15th to 21st.

I will be giving daily reports to Andrew Ooi of gilachess so you can follow the action there. Leaving for KL tomorrow morning for meetings so there will be no more posts here till after I get back on the 22nd.

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.

Other games from SEA games selection.

Here.

Fide candidate matches 2011

Here.

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.

Mok vs Jimmy

Here.

SEA games selection

Covered here.

We are rooting for Sumant. I hope his training with us will take him to the top 4. All my best Sumant. Stay focussed, stay strong.

FGM Thematic Tournament covered CHZ.in

Here.