Month: December 2024

With news that the Asian and Eastern Asia Cadets to be held in April and July respectively, the Malaysian Chess Federation has decided to swap the dates for the National Youth Youth to be held earlier in the year and the Scholastic edition to be pushed back to a later date in May. Scheduled from…

MCF will be organizing the New Year Eve Blitz (FIDE Rated) event starting at 9:30pm to cross over midnight on 31st December 2024 and ends at 1:00am in the early days of 1st January 2025. The New Year Blitz is limited only to 50 players offering a total prize fund of RM1,000 with the winner…

MCF congratulates and welcomes our newly minted IAs, FAs and NAs who have been approved by FIDE Arbiter’s Commission in the last quarter of 2024. This includes 2 IAs who have been upgraded from Level C to Level D, 2 new IAs, 11 new FAs and 19 new NAs CONGRATULATIONS ALL!

With the year coming to a close, MCF will be organizing its final NA Seminar session for 2024 on the very last weekend of the year. Scheduled to be held on 28th and 29th December, MCF continues to offer reduced pricing for school teachers at only RM200 compared to the usual RM250 for open participants.…

The Malaysian Chess Federation would like to apologize to those who have shown interest to participate at this weekend’s U16 Age Group Standard event (14th and 15th December), as the program had to be cancelled due to poor response. Those who already registered can request for a refund or carry it forward to the upcoming…

With the FIDE 100 Years Celebration approaching, MCF has received confirmation that former Women World Champion – GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, has confirmed her attendance to be here for the dinner. MCF has also received confirmation that the former Champion has also agreed to host a simul against 20 players who are interested to take up…