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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. […]

44th Chess Olympiad India with a captain’s eye Round 5-7 Sept 10, 2022 by Robert Novak, game analysis by IM Imre Fancsy Round 5 Yemen:In the fifth round Malta Men’s team played against Yemen, another strong opponent. They had 2 IMs, 1CM and their elo-rating’s average was 2255. Until this certain game we had 2 […]

44th Chess Olympiad India with a captain’s eye Round 1-4 August 17, 2022 by Robert Novak, game analysis by IM Imre Fancsy Round 1 Serbia:In the first round Malta Men’s team played against Serbia and it was a really though game. 4 GM’s, four really experienced but not old chess players with 2574 average Elo-rating. […]

Robert Zerafa wins Malta Chess Championship for 2021 24th January 2022 32-year old Robert Zerafa from Marsaxlokk is Malta’s 86th Chess Champion. Zerafa has won the title for the fifth time in his career after winning it from 2016-2019. This year’s Finals was held among 5 players – 2020 Champion Jake Darmanin, Colin Pace, Jack […]

Announcement: MCF Annual General Meeting for Season 2020/21 17th December 2021 The Malta Chess Federation (MCF) announces that its forthcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the season 2020/21 will be held online on Sunday 16 January 2022 starting at 09:30 AM CET. The MCF has decided to hold the meeting online in the current circumstances […]

European Small Nations Team Event in Malta 21st November 2021 The 7th European Small Nations Team Event will be held in Malta between Saturday 27th November (arrival) and Sunday 5th December (departure) at the Victoria Palace hotel in Sliema. All information can be found in the official document Esna 7th Team Championship – Malta 2021 (v211122). […]