Category: Announcement

With less than three (3) months to go before we cross to the new year, it will be a busy quarter for the Malaysian Chess Federation with four (4) major events planned, an Annual General Meeting and a proposed National Squad Training Program. For the events, a mix of Online, Over-The-Board and Hybrid format events…

As MCF begins to accept a steady flow of applicants eager to join the 1st National Individual Rapid Online Chess Championship, the organizer has also received questions about the schedule, timing and whether or not players must use laptop and webcams in order to join. Although the initial plan was to confirm the schedule only…

FIDE has recently announced another major Online event set for 2020 with the inaugural FIDE Online Olympiad for People with Disabilities set to be held from 20th November to 3rd December 2020. As the number of teams allowed for the Olympiad depends on the number of Paralympians registered with FIDE, the Malaysian Chess Federation is…

The Malaysian Chess Federation will be organizing the 1st National Individual Online Rapid Chess Championship 2020 to be held in October 2020. Players who are interested to be a part of the inaugural event are invited to register and submit the entry fees to the Malaysian Chess Federation on or before 8th October 2020. Once…

Announcement: The correct email to forward the application is mcfselection@malaysiachess.org and mcfsecretariat@malaysiachess.org and NOT .com . The error is regretted. The Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) has received an invitation from the ASIAN Chess Federation (ACF) to send a Men and a Women teams to the upcoming 2020 ASIAN Online Nations Chess Cup to be held…

The Malaysian Chess Federation had a short meeting with OCM Council members on Thursday last week to discuss preparation for Vietnam SEA GAMES 2021. In view of IM Yeoh Li Tian’s impressive performance to bag Malaysia’s first ever Chess Gold at last year’s meet in Manila, MCF is confident that it can field a better…

The Commissioner of Sports has officially approved the Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) request to change its official office address to Chess Hacks in Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam as of 10th August 2020 With the approval, MCF will start to plan a few events and activities at the new office which has already started with the…

By now, the community is already aware that Malaysia was not able to proceed beyond its pool to advance to the Division 2 stage. In the Pool A Division 3 event which was played and completed 2 weeks ago, Malaysia finished fourth behind Pool Champion Singapore, second place Ireland and Albania with top seed Monaco…

Amidst caution and excitement following the government decision to ease MCO for non contact sports to resume its tournaments and events, Malaysian Chess Federation took the initiative to kick start the activity by organizing an Over-The-Board (OTB) tournament last weekend on Saturday 8/8 at its new office in Chess Hacks@Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam. While the…