Category: Announcement

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…

Since its doors opened on 1st September 2024, the MCF office is buzzing with activities and is going in full force to ensure that there are plenty of programs scheduled for the chess community. With full weekend schedule that will run until January 2025, the office will once again organize an NA Seminar on 19th…

The annual National Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship will again be sponsored through the generosity of KL Gateway – the official tournament venue for the second year running. With RM6,000 in prize money up for grabs for the eventual winners – an increased fund from last year’s edition, the 3 days event will start with…

The MCF Rating list for the month of September has been updated with the following events:1. Kejohanan Catur Rapid Individu Rating Kebangsaan LAGILA Krubong Siri 3 (22nd September)2. AEON Mall Taiping Chess Festival 2024 – Team Event (16th September)3. AEON Mall Taiping Chess Festival 2024 – U15 Event (15th September)4. AEON Mall Taiping Chess Festival…

The earlier Standard event for U2200 which was postponed last month is back on the calendar. Set to be scheduled on 26th and 27th October 2024, the 6 Rounds Swiss event for players below FIDE Rating 2200 will offer a total prize fund of RM1,100 with the winner set to win RM400, runner up RM200…