From our performance in the few matches i feel that one advantage is having the ability to decide who takes red and black during asia cup. From the friendly matches, i think that all players have lots to learn from this not only Ruizhan that did not perform at his best. E.g chess skills mental skills, even trying to maintain one's composure is an important element. I would like to take the opportunity to thank Wang yingzai for organising the friendly competition for us. I greatly appreciate it (i apologise if he cant read chinese i'm at work :P so can't type chinese. will do so at night and also a brief summary of yesterday's match)

要代替国家队感谢棋一生和其他搞这次友谊赛的棋友非常感激。

恩我对宋的那盘棋感觉后面走的时候没什么先手了其实是盘和棋但我不甘愿和得太干净想保留点机会走个略亏的变但算的时候漏了马2进1抓马的棋。车8平4崔杀我认为不是很好错失了占优的机会。第40步应炮9平6，红马5进7，黑车4平3，红车7进2，黑马1进3，红车8退6，黑马3进4，红象7进5，黑马4进5，红象3进5，黑车8平5红士4进5，黑马6进4（黑棋大优）

黄那盘棋也是想取胜所以走了略亏的变结果获胜个人感觉红棋占优但红走的太保守了。

卷心菜那盘棋感觉朱开局比较怪黑棋可以抗衡第16步黑棋的卒1进1可能可以改走卒9进1保留黑车1平2的棋同时也牵制红棋的右翼还有对3卒的棋。这样感觉黑棋满意。

吕瑞占那盘棋感觉黑棋可以下也不是很亏。第一感第30步不走马2进3可以考虑卒1进1，1。红如兵5进1黑车4平5 2。兵1进1炮1进1，红如马3进2，黑炮1进3，感觉黑不亏还可以。

The above mentioned is all true, most of us treated it like an individual event. Especially me all 3 games i moved moves that made me a little disadvantage but open up the scenarios. It is also true that we are not obviously the best group of 4 players in singapore. But, can anyone gurantee the results of any other 4 players that would be better than us? For example i think it was in 2004, Laihansoon represented Singapore as the 2004 national champion. Who would expect him getting 5 losses and one lose? Even with the assistance of IGM XU TIAN HONG. And though he kept on losing, he stilled continued to play. Being Coach of Singapore, Xu Tian Hong should replace him and in the event of that had to neglect lin jin xin. From my view i put the blame on XUTIANHONG because of his ignorance and his stupid views. Now we've lost one good player (lin jin xin) who is discouraged from representing Singapore even though other team mates are not performing well.

On the other hand, i know many people used to debate why i represented Singapore in 2006 despite me not taking part in the national competition (Champion of selection competition) Why not just take top 4 rather had to take the champion from the selection competition. It is not fair that i represented singapore from a players view that might be true however i was fortunated to produce the results hence was less criticised. However i could also understand the management's view wanting the best interest for the country. i'm not saying that i'm the best in Singapore. Probabably my style of play is more suitable for international competitions compared to more players in Singapore.

We have another IGM liu da hua coming to Singapore this time for the asian tour.This time round, I hope he excercises good judgement not senseless subjectivity like the past IGM.

what jidu was trying to say is that the best 4 should be given the benefit of doubt and not by saying that the best 4 in the competition is the best 4 out of those that participated the reason is because of piggy's previous post of trying to ENCOURAGE and trying to tell people to suppport the national players. Here you are telling people that they are top 4 "only for that year" and only for "those that participated" can u tell me why this statement is necessasary? Do you have a better way of selecting the top 4? Maybe u wanna organise another national competition.
All systems are flawed some have more some have less. Which is the best is still hard to say. This current system might be to a disadvantage to some stronger players but it has also a very good way of training the players mental and also helping players adjust to different systems more importantly it gives different players more opportunity to represent Singapore. I think people like ruizhan deserve some credit instead people are asking people to give up their place to others. For whose sake? The countries? Anyone can gurantee who can play very well? as i mentioned in the previous posts one of the top players in singapore Lai han soon represented in 2004 and got 5 losses one draw. who expected that? Its all about form.

Specificed in my previous post. Being 2 time Singapore champion at that time who would expect the results hansoon produced? If a 2 time singapore champion can produce these sort of results, who can u expect to produce results? of course it's not his fault i believe it's about his form being affected by other factors. What makes you think that sending a better player would produce better results? Of course sending a better player would play a part but thats not the most crucial part. Speaking from past experience, Playing in an international competition wouldn't really matter much if your standard is more or less there you just need to have a weapon and must not be too weak in the other parts of your game and form is the key to sucess.

i also agree with jidu that he said that they dared to play so those that did not play for whatsoever reason should not be taken into consideration thats why i say given the benefit of doubt. And on the trophy it does say QUAN2 GUO2 DIAN4 JUN1 OR QUAN2 GUO2 GUAN4 JUN1 not BI3 SAI4 GUAN JUN OR BI SAI DIAN JUN for ur info.

"i can also say who can guarantee kids under 10 yrs old cannot play well in competition??" You are not comparing apples to apples u are comparing apples with something else. We are talking about the A division not the under 10 division. Of cos if people like liuyihao play well next year he will get a chance to represent but thats beside the point.