No need for chess in the SEA games
Chess is not really supported as a sport even at national level as from our very own National Sports Council(NSC) director general, Datuk Zolkples Embong recently commented about the Sea Games Federation (SGF):-
“The SGF need to sit down and look at promoting sports which can improve the chances of the countries in the region to compete at a higher level. For the good of sports in the region, there is no need for sports like fin swimming, shuttlecock kicking and chess to be introduced,” said Zolkples.
~Full article in The Star
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Comments
Yes, let’s just stick to football….Malaysia is very good at it, don’t you agree? Malaysian football teams strike fear into the other Asian countries. Oh wait, that was 3 decades ago. Apparently the Malaysian football team lost all its matches in the Asian Cup.. T
Itu yg ramai tak faham culture atau tradisi sukan di malaysia.pemain catur negara perlu mendapat emas dahulu di mana2 sukan seperti sea games atau asian games atau paralimpik.Baru kementerian sukan setuju akan beri sokongan dari segi kewangan atau peralatan. Sekarang paralimpik catur dapat 2 emas. Mereka terkejut dan ada yang merasa malu.sekarang sm tak heran kalau duit rm100ribu sm leh dapat tahun ini dari badan-badan sukan kerajaan untuk pasukan catur paralimpik negara.Sama juga dengan pemain catur sea games.sebutir emas dah cukup untuk habuan wang kepada pembangunan sukan catur dari badan2 sukan di negara ini.Buktikan dulu dengan dapat sebutir emas dan tunggu sahaja sokongan yang bakal diterima.
Datuk Zolkples’s obviously not a chess lover…if not chess will be declared as a core sports like in Vietnam since 1980! fyi, chess will be a significant part of the 1st World Mind Sports Games in Beijing in October 2008, where invited players and teams will play blitz and rapid games for Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals, together with Bridge, Chinese Chess, Go and Draughts (Checkers).