Author: MCF Secretariat

In line with its effort to promote more standard events for the Age Group, and due to the slow response received from the public, the Malaysian Chess Federation has decided to forego the entry fees for this week’s U8 Age Group Standard Chess set to be held at MCF Office on Saturday and Sunday (9th…

The Malaysian Chess Federation would like to apologize to those who have shown interest to participate at this weekend’s U18 Age Group Standard event, as the program had to be cancelled due to poor response. Due to the long weekend and many other tournaments being organized – with an abundance of weekend to weekend events…

KBS MASTER GAMES 2024 – CATUR With the success of SUKMA Sarawak, and inline with the nation’s MADANI aspiration to promote a healthy lifestyle for Malaysians, the Ministry of Youth and Sports (KBS) has introduced another sporting gala for Malaysians to participate and celebrate – KBS Masters Sports Carnival 2024, or the Karnival Sukan Master…

Six (6) more arbiters have earned the title National Arbiters pursuant to their applications successfully approved by FIDE. MCF CONGRATULATES all our newly minted NA and hope that they will continue to pursue their chess career, and help to develop and invigorate chess progression in the country. GOOD LUCK and ALL THE BEST!

As advertised earlier, MCF Office will continue to organize Standard event (time control with 30 seconds incremental time) aimed at promoting longer standard time control especially for the younger players to challenge themselves to be more accustomed to longer quality plays. The weekly event will start with the U18 age bracket on the 2nd and…

The Malaysian Chess Federation is inviting potential and interested players who are keen to take part at the upcoming Asian Schools Chess Championship to be held in Bangkok from the 1st to the 11th of December 2024. For School events, the odd age group bracket of U17, U15, U13, U11, U9 and U7 will be…

But the BUGHOUSE event at 8:30pm REMAINS! Due to the overwhelming number of events being organized over the weekend, the response for the Fischer Random event has not been encouraging resulting in its cancelation. MCF will also review the upcoming sessions whether it will attract enough players to start a tournament. Therefore, all the Fischer…

CONGRATULATIONS to our new Arbiters and Titled Players who have received their deserving awards and recognition from FIDE. While the news of the awarded title may have been circling within the community in the last couple of weeks – and some may have been announced earlier, the Malaysian Chess Federation would like to once again…

The Malaysian Chess Federation is pleased to announce that IA Abd Hamid Abd Majid has been appointed as the Chief Arbiter for the upcoming World Chess Championship 2024 between Ding Liren and D Gukesh which will be held in Singapore from 25th November to 15th December 2024. IA Hamid appointment for the World Championship was…