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With the closing date to register for the Asian Youth Chess Championship 2022 to end today, the Malaysian Chess Federation has submitted a 16 players squad to the Regional event which will be held in Bali from 13th to 22nd October 2022. With Iwan Schani Ibnu acting as the Head of Delegation for the squad,…

With the ASIAN Youth event in Bali to end on 22nd October 2022, players will have around 2 weeks to recuperate and move forward for the next regional event which is the 6th Eastern Asia Youth Chess Championship to be held in Bangkok, Thailand from 4th to 13th November 2022. While the Eastern Asia event…

Due to the withdrawal of our National Champions from participating in the ASIAN Continental Chess Championship in New Delhi – CM Tan Jun Ying has decided to opt for the World Junior while WIM Siti Zulaikha eyeing on Bangkok Open, MCF Selection Committee has decided to reopen the application for the World Junior U20 (for…

MCF is opening the application portal for interested players to apply as the Malaysian representative at the upcoming World Amateur Chess Championship to be held from the 20th to the 30th of October 2022 in Malta. As the organizer is not providing any provision for official players, all costs including board and lodging/hotel for the…

It will be a hectic ending to 2022 as many organizers are scrambling to complete their annual calendar of events before the 31st of December dateline. Starting from the biannual Olympiad that was completed by India in a record time after Russia was stripped as host, to the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship 2022…

The ASIAN Chess Federation (ACF) has invited the Malaysian Chess Federation to send its representatives to the upcoming ASIAN Continental Chess Championship to be held in New Delhi, India from 25th October to 4th November 2022. With a prize fund of USD 60,000 up for grabs, the winner will qualify for the Zonal/World Championship Cycle…

At a glance, the numbers may not look good but, if we were to dive deeper, we did much better than the previous results – since 2008 when the Olympiad goes to 11 rounds and the 4 players/1 reserve format was adopted for both the Men and Women events. While it may be difficult to…

While the automatic slots have been offered to the winner of the age group NYCC 2020 events held in June, a few slots have remained unfilled as some players had to decline the offer. That said, MCF is looking for official players to apply for the U16 (Girls), U10 (Open/Boys and Girls) and the U8…

Albeit his hectic schedule and the possibility of missing the Congress and the Olympiad last week, MCF President – Akhramsyah Muammar Ubaidah Sanusi, finally managed to squeeze some valuable time to be at the Olympiad, getting to know the who’s who of the Chess World. Arriving in Chennai yesterday, Akhram did not waste any time…