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 […]

The Malaysian Chess Federation will be organizing FIDE 100 Years Celebration Dinner on 9th December 2024 to be held at Hotel Royale Chulan Damansara starting at 7:00pm. The guests of honors will be the YB Minister of Youth and Sports – YB Puan Hannah Yeoh, FIDE President – Arkady Dvorkovich, FIDE Deputy Chair – Dana […]

In continuing our effort to elevate chess to a higher level, MCF and KLCA once again invite veteran players to participate at the 2nd edition of the Malaysian National Seniors Chess Championship and Malaysian National Seniors Rapid Championship. The classical format tournament will be held from 27th to 29th December 2024 while the rapid tournament […]

The first ever KBS Masters Games 2024 – showcasing 11 sports with Chess as one of the activity selected at the inaugural edition, is set to clock off at 9:00am on Friday, 22nd of November 2024. Those who are interested to view the games or meet and support the players are invited to visit the […]

The Malaysian Chess Federation CONGRATULATES our newest addition of titled players to Ainul Mardhiah Mohd Afif for being awarded the title Woman FIDE Master (WFM) by FIDE. Her award came after her stellar performance at the recently concluded Asian Juniors and Girls Chess Championship 2024 which was held in Tagaytay City, Philippines which catapulted her […]