Short notice
CHESSBy QUAH SENG SUN
This year’s national closed championship will be held during the coming school semester break.
THE Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) has announced that this year’s national closed chess championship will be held during the coming mid-year school semester break. It’s an announcement that’s very late in coming.
The championship starts on May 30 and will continue until June 3, with the closing date for entries is just a week away, on May 28.
It will be a nine-round event and each game will be played using the 90-minute time control with 30 seconds added on for each move.
This allows the event to be rated by the World Chess Federation. So there you have it: long time control games with a chance to gain – or lose – Fide ratings.
There’ll actually be two events running concurrently.
The first is the national closed championship for the Tun Hussein Onn trophy. The other is the national women’s closed championship for the Tan Sri Sabbaruddin Chik trophy that’s exclusively for women participants.
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Why last minute?