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St. Theresa College Mriehel Secondary Interschool Champions May 05, 2023 The Chess Interschools were held on Wednesday 26 th April at St. Ignatius Middle School at Tal-Handaq Qormi. A record 218 players representing 60 teams from 19 schools played a Swiss system tournament. Each team fielded a minimum of 3 players with some having 2 […]

David Cilia Vincenti is the new Malta Champion for 2022 23rd April 2023 updated with game analysis by David 45-year old David Cilia Vincenti who is living in New Zeland since 2013 is Malta’s 87th Chess Champion. David has won the title for the second time in his career after winning 22 years ago in […]

Jack Mizzi wins Junior Chess Championship Mar 19, 2023 16-year old Jack Mizzi won the National Chess Junior Championship for the second time in a row.Mizzi won his last two games against Andrei Dobbin and Leonardo Nils Kang Di Benedetto to securethe title. Mizzi will now be eligible to represent Malta in European and World […]

Jack Mizzi leads Junior Championships with 2 rounds to go Mar 13, 2023 After the first 5 rounds of the Junior Championships , 16-year old Jack Mizzi, the current Junior Champion, is leading with 4.5 pts. Jack, who is now in the men’s National team and is the clear favourite, won his first 4 games […]

John Richards wins Preliminaries Mar 05, 2023 Veteran John Richards dropped just half a point on his way to win the Preliminaries – the first phaseof the National Championship. Richards who last won the Preliminaries in 2015, showed hisintentions immediately by winning all his first 5 rounds against Gabriel Grech, Alfred Azzopardi,Leonardo Zangrilli, Karl Saliba […]

Saliba and Richards lead Preliminaries at halfway stage Feb 19, 2023 After 3 rounds of the first phase of the Malta Championship – the Preliminaries, Karl Saliba and JohnRichards are the only players on full points having won all their matches. Richards beat GabrielGrech, Alfred Azzopardi and Leonardo Zangrilli – the latter with a nice […]

16-year old Jack Mizzi, who is the current Junior Champion (U20) has just participated in the ESNA Chess Championships held in Liechtenstein. The other participating small nations were Andorra, Cyprus, Faroes Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco and San Marino. The championship held bi-annually had 2 Grand Masters (Andorra and Monaco), 1 International Master (Luxembourg), […]

The Malta Chess Federation held its Annual General Meeting on Sunday 5th February. The new council for the next 4 years was formed. Duncan Vella was appointed President and Noel Grima – Vice President. Jake Darmanin is the new General Secretary while Nina Thornton is Treasurer. Geoffrey Borg is FIDE Delegate while Jamie Farrugia, Ron […]

44th Chess Olympiad India with a captain’s eye Round 8-11 Feb 6, 2023 by Robert Novak, game analysis by IM Imre Fancsy Round 8 Sao Tome and Principe (The bad day):In the eighth round Malta Men’s team played against Sao Tome and Principe, where we were the favourites, but everything went wrong. Their average rating […]

FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich visits Malta Oct 22, 2022 FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich and Malta Chess Federation Vice President Duncan Vella and Treasurer Noel Grima held a meeting to discuss current and future affairs of the Malta Chess Federation. This was Mr. Dvorkovich’s first visit to Malta but also the 100th country he travelled to. […]