Month: May 2024

The Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) and the Penang Chess Association (PCA) is set to host the 8th Eastern Asia Youth Chess Championship from 12-21 July in Penang. Invitations have been sent out to all the Eastern Asia countries including China (i.e. those in FIDE Zones 3.3 and 3.5) and the MCF and PCA is pleased…

The KPM-MSSM-Milo sports awards are held annually to recognize excellence and celebrate stellar achievements of Malaysia’s young promising athletes. In 2023, having won the 1st place in the Malaysian Chess Championship for women category, Ainul Mardhiah Binti Mohd Afif was awarded the title Woman National Master (WNM). In the very same year, she won 3rd…

The MCF Rating for April 2024 has been updated with 9 more events rated and updated. Organizers who gave registered for their events in April 2024 for their events to be National Rated but are not listed above, please contact the secretariat for the matter to be resolved. For the May edition, all the events…

The second edition of the Azerbaijan National Leader Day Celebration 2024 was held on the 18th of May 2024 at the University of Cyberjaya, Cyberjaya with 98 players from 5 different countries taking part in the annual event. Divided into 2 main events, the Open section had 76 players vying for the prizes offered while…

25 primary and 23 secondary schools from 5 different states took part in the first ever National Inter School Chess Championship 2024 that was organized over the weekend at IGB International School Sg. Buloh. MCF President, Mr. Akhramsyah Muammar Sanusi and IGBIS Head of School, Dr. Gregory Brunton officiated the opening ceremony. 15 minutes before…

MCF is pleased to announce the revival of the National Open Team Chess Championship 2024 to be held from the 5th to the 8th of July 2024 at the Main Hall, Level 1, Menara Sri Wilayah, Jabatan Wilayah Persekutuan, Putrajaya. This is one of the efforts and initiative mooted by MCF to promote more quality…

With the top three winners from the MCC event qualified automatically for the Olympiad bound squad to Budapest, many are wondering who will be filling up the balance 2 players slots in the Open and Women team. And the answer was finalized yesterday. For the Open Team, the top three(3) finishers from the MCC2024 event…

Registration has been slow and much lower than the targeted players but the quality of players playing is quite impressive. Current National Champion and Runner Up – both Olympiad bound, will be playing in the open event which will also has FM Chan Kim Yew and FM Lim Zhuo Ren, and National Junior Champion Anderson…

Schools and players taking part in the upcoming MCF – IGBIS National Interschool Chess Championship 2024 have been uploaded onto chess-results.com website. As of today, three(3) schools are yet to update their team line up – Sekolah Datuk Abdul Razak (SDAR), SMK Desa Cempaka and SJKT Tun Sambanthan. A total of 22 Primary schools and…

With the top three (3) finishers at the Malaysian Chess Championship 2024 Open and Women events are automatically selected to don national colors to the upcoming 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary, MCF is looking to fill up the balance two(2) slots from interested players who are keen to apply to be part of…