Category: Announcement

At the close of the registration day, a total of 202 players – 137 boys and 65 girls, have registered to participate in the Eastern Asia Youth Online Chess Championship 2021 hosted by Thailand Chess Association and endorsed by Asian Chess Federation and FIDE. All players listed are required to check their emails later today…

The Malaysian Men’s University Chess Team equaled the feat achieved by the Women’s team to secure the Bronze Medal but on the individual achievement, IM Yeoh Li Tian did one better by securing the Silver Medal for the country. Call it the luck of the draw or being at the right place at the right…

After four weekly series that ran from 31st July until 29th August 2021, with more than 500 players taking part in the three playing categories offered – U12, Ladies and Open, the Federal Territories Online Chess Festival concluded with the the Championship Knock Out stage being held earlier today. Thirty two (32) hopefuls started the…

With one more day to go before registration closes, there are more than 120 aspiring Junior players who have registered to play in the Eastern Asia Youth Online Chess Championship 2021. The breakdown of the players and those who have registered are as follows: If you have registered but your name is not found in…

National Junior Nurul Akma Quzaina – a wild card entry nominated by MCF for the Finals, completed her haul in her second Knock Out Series by overcoming a strong resistance from Claire Foo Jing Er who took her all the way to the Armageddon round. Needing only a draw in the tie breaker game, Akma…

Although Team Malaysia was stopped short in their Olympiad journey, another Team Malaysia did well to secure a Bronze Medal for the country. Led by WFM Tan Li Ting, together with WIM Puteri Munajjah AzZahraa Azhar, WFM Puteri Rifqah Fahada Azhar and WCM Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan, the Malaysian University Ladies Team did just that to secure…

Malaysia’s campaign in the 2021 Online Olympiad came to an end on Saturday after losing to Latvia 2.5 – 3.5 in penultimate round and Moldova 1.5 – 4.5 in the final round. Team Malaysia did salvage a win against Iraq with a 4.5 – 1.5 advantage in the opening Round 7 of Day 3 but…

After an excellent start on Day 1 of the Online Olympiad 2021, reality hit hard on the Malaysian Team on Day 2 of the event. Team Malaysia started the day against Switzerland – lead by GM Sebastian Bogner (2552), and the team did well to steal 2 valuable points from their encounter. The highlight of…

It was an incredible showing from Team Malaysia – 2 wins and 1 draw in their opening day of Division 2 Pool B match up. Malaysia started with a 4.5-1.5 win against Wales in the opening rounds with 3 wins from FM Lim Zhuo Ren, WIM Puteri Munajjah and FM Chan Kim Yew, with the…