Author: MCF Secretariat

FIDE approved eight (8) more Arbiters for the title of National Arbiters (NA) recently with the first six (6) Arbiters approved on the 19th of June and another two (2) Arbiters approved earlier today The Arbiter approved on the 19th of June were as follows: The Arbiters approved today were: CONGRATULATIONS and ALL THE BEST…

The Malaysian Chess Federation Training Commission – lead by Head Coach and Chairman FM Sumant Subramaniam, has agreed to extend the submission dateline for the training program (NTP 4.0) to the 10th of July 2023. With the dateline extended for another week, the starting date for the program has also been push back to begin…

The Malaysian chess Federation has confirmed both FM Lim Zhou Ren and WIM Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa Azhar as our representatives at the upcoming FIDE World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan. This will be the second outing for WIM Puteri Munajjah after her initial appearance in the same event in 2021. For FM Lim Zhou Ren, this…

Malaysian Chess Federation named its 4 players National squad Malaysia will continue with its tradition to participate in the upcoming FIDE World Youth Olympiad U16 2023 to be held in Eindhoven, Netherlands from the 12th until the 19th of August 2023. However, the organizer has decided to adopt a new format for the event –…

One School will be selected by the Malaysian Chess Federation to represent Malaysia at the inaugural world event. Is your school good enough to be selected as our Official National Representative? MCF is opening application from schools to be selected as the official Malaysian School to compete at the World School Chess Championship 2023 to…

MCF ID – How To Ensure A Successful Registration While the Federation is happy that there has been a surge of players applying for MCF ID, and many organizers are beginning to adopt the MCF Rating system, the secretariat has been flooded by emails requesting help with their registration. So, here are a few pointers:…

The Malaysian Chess Federation will proceed with the fourth edition of the National Training Program which is scheduled to start from 5th July 2023 until October 2023. This will be the 4th edition of the training program which was initiated in 2020. The program will be managed by the Technical Commission headed by MCF VP2…

MCF Task Force for SUKMA met with officials from MSN yesterday to discuss on the event format that will be used for SUKMA in Sarawak next year. Attending the meeting was En Azwan Azmi, En Safwan, En Azman and Puan Emilia from MSN together with MCF DP1 – Dr Zaidan Zulkipli, VP1 – Muhammad Firdaus…