28/03/2024
  • 5:21 pm AZERBAIJAN NATIONAL LEADER CELEBRATION DAY 2024
  • 5:33 pm Registration For Inter School Begins To Pick Up
  • 3:10 pm CONGRATULATIONS To Two(2) More New National Arbiters
  • 3:26 pm MCF Rated Events for February
  • 3:13 pm Updated Calendar

It will be a hectic ending to 2022 as many organizers are scrambling to complete their annual calendar of events before the 31st of December dateline. Starting from the biannual Olympiad that was completed by India in a record time after Russia was stripped as host, to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2022 […]

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The ASIAN Chess Federation (ACF) has invited the Malaysian Chess Federation to send its representatives to the upcoming ASIAN Continental Chess Championship to be held in New Delhi, India from 25th October to 4th November 2022. With a prize fund of USD 60,000 up for grabs, the winner will qualify for the Zonal/World Championship Cycle […]

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At a glance, the numbers may not look good but, if we were to dive deeper, we did much better than the previous results – since 2008 when the Olympiad goes to 11 rounds and the 4 players/1 reserve format was adopted for both the Men and Women events. While it may be difficult to […]

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While the automatic slots have been offered to the winner of the age group NYCC 2020 events held in June, a few slots have remained unfilled as some players had to decline the offer. That said, MCF is looking for official players to apply for the U16 (Girls), U10 (Open/Boys and Girls) and the U8 […]

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Albeit his hectic schedule and the possibility of missing the Congress and the Olympiad last week, MCF President – Akhramsyah Muammar Ubaidah Sanusi, finally managed to squeeze some valuable time to be at the Olympiad, getting to know the who’s who of the Chess World. Arriving in Chennai yesterday, Akhram did not waste any time […]

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List of events received and/or approved by the Malaysian Chess Federation Tournament Committee from August until November 2022. In many of the events, additional approval from COS – Commissioner of Sports, is required as such, all the organizers have been requested to get in touch with COS and seek further advice. As COS would require […]

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It was a casual send-off for our Malaysian contingent to the 44th World Olympiad last Wednesday – attended by close friends, and MCF President Akhramsyah Muammar Ubaidah Sanusi. Leading the pack was Head of Contingent – Muhammad Firdaus Ismail with FM Sumant Subramaniam managing the Open Team and his counterpart IM Mok Tze Meng for […]

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MCF is calling young Malaysians who are interested to be part of the National contingent to the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad and the World Junior U20 Chess Championship 2022 to apply for a chance to compete in the above tournaments to be held later in the year. WORLD YOUTH U16 CHESS OLYMPIAD 2022 Scheduled […]

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The Malaysian Chess Federation is calling Amateur Chess Players in Malaysia – with FIDE Rating below 2000, to apply for the chance to represent Malaysia at the upcoming Asian Amateur Chess Championship 2022 to be held in Muscat, Oman from 28th September until 6th October. Players who are interested to apply must have both MCF […]

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A total of 11 players applied for a place as the Malaysian Official Representatives to the World Youth in Romania, and another 5 for the World Cadets in Georgia. With the application window closing on the 30th of June 2022 – and after careful selection from the MCF Selection Committee, the following players were selected […]

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