Author: MCF Secretariat

The Malaysian Chess Championship would like to apologize on the confusion that may have arisen with regards to the 7th EASTERN ASIAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2023. After consultation with the ASIAN CHESS FEDERATION (ACF) and as per FIDE Official Calendar, the 7th EASTERN ASIAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 will officially be held in Hainan, China…

The Malaysian Chess Federation is opening up applications for aspiring U16 players who are interested to be a part of the Malaysian U16 Team to the World Youth Olympiad for U16 to be held from the 12th to the 19th of August. With Eindhoven, Netherlands hosting this year’s edition, each team participating in the event…

It has come to the attention of the Malaysian Chess Federation that disrespectful remarks were made about a female chess player via social media recently. MCF views such remarks with deep concern and will conduct a necessary investigation accordingly. MCF wishes to make it very clear that we do not condone such behavior and comments.…

Queens’ Chess Festival returns in July The FIDE Queens’ Online Chess Festival which offers a-Women-only series of blitz tournaments via all four continents, will be making its return to the global calendar this July. The 3rd edition of the online event which scheduled from the 2nd until the 16th of July via Tornelo platform will…

To date, 8 out of the 12 winners of the AGROBANK Scholastic Chess Championship 2023 that was held earlier in the year, have agreed to participate in this exciting opportunity. Unfortunately, 4 players have declined to participate due to clashing schedules as such, MCF will proceed to open the application to players who are interested…

The date for the ASEAN Chess Tournament (ASEAN Chess not the Standard Chess) is from 22nd June to 26th June and not was published earlier. The earlier date mentioned was for the actual Thailand Open (Standard Chess) in Chiang Mai from the 28th of June to the 4th of July 2023. ASEAN Chess is a…

List of Names as of 28th May 2023 (9:00pm)Closing date is on the 31st of May 2023 As of today, we have 293 players who have registered for the event. We expect the numbers to hit 350 players or more within the next few days as many scrambled to meet the dateline.

FIDE has entered a partnership with a German company WR Group Holding GmbH to launch a new major global competition: the World Rapid Team Championship scheduled to take place in Düsseldorf (Germany) from August 25th to August 28th, 2023 The inaugural edition, to be played over a 12-round Swiss tournament under rapid time control over…