Category: Announcement

The FT Online Chess Festival clocked off last weekend with a more than 66 Junior, 27 Ladies and 53 Open players participating in the inaugural event. The number of turnout was expected but as this was the first series, the slow registration should pick up as the event moves into its 2nd Series this coming…

Malaysia’s campaign in the FIDE World Cadets & Youth Chess Championship kicks off tonight at 11:00pm starting with the preliminary qualification rounds for Open U10 and Girls U18 categories. Played over 10 rounds, each category will be played over 5 consecutive days with 2 rounds of play each day. The top winners from each category…

With the final listing of the top 32 players for the Ladies and U12 categories have been made public, the final listing for the Open and U18 final is now available for viewing. Similarly, players are requested to contact mcfsecretariat@malaysiachess.org to confirm their participation for the event. As mentioned in the earlier news shared in…

The Boys category for the Asian Schools Chess Championship 2021 concluded late yesterday afternoon – a week after the Girls category ended a week ago. Overall, while our Girls may have performed slightly better than the Boys, it was a commendable outing for our youngsters as for many, this is their first outing donning the…

The ASIAN Chess Federation (ACF) will be organizing the Asian Juniors Chess Championship for Players with Disabilities from 13th to 15th August 2021. The event is open to all Para Players within the Asian Zone with no limitation to the number of players that can represent the country. The Malaysian Chess Federation is calling all…

Registration for Series 1 is NOW CLOSED and the final listing of all players for FT Online Chess Festival Series 1 are as displayed below. An email will be sent to all players to join the Whatsapp Group link for information to be shared with all contestant. Please join the group once you have received…

With the conclusion of the Xtiv Series 4, the final listing of the top 32 players for the Ladies and U12 categories that qualify for the Knock Out Stage has been finalized. For the Open and U18 categories, the listing is being confirmed and once that is done, it will be shared later this weekend…

With tomorrow being the last day to register for Series 1, a bit of update on the field of play and the number of players playing in the event. As of at 8:00pm earlier today, a total of 54 players have signed up for the U12 category, another 16 for the Ladies event and 32…

After 3 days of play and 9 rounds later, the ASIAN Schools for the Girls Category came to an end yesterday with a commendable show of performance by our Girls. Most impressive was the U15 Girls Team comprised of WFM Agnes Chong Kai NI, Swetha Thamil Manni, Janice Lim and Teh Yi-Lynn who did very…

With 24 countries and 358 players taking part in 6 age categories, Malaysia was the 5th largest Girls contingent to the Online event with 37 players playing in 5 different age groups. There was no representative for Malaysia in the U7 Girls age group as there was no players interested to take up the spot.…