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). […]
Candidates 2021 redux October 17, 2021, by Noel Grima The Candidates is the second phase of the Malta Championship and following its postponement in July 2021, will now be held from 25 October to 8 November 2021 with seven games being played on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 18:00 at the Chess Club at St […]
Preliminaries 2021 31st May – 21st June. The First stage of the Malta Chess Championships – the Preliminaries start on 31st May. 17 players are taking part. The top 6 qualify to the second phase – the Candidates to be held in July. Time limits: 90 mins for all game with 30 sec increment per […]
Jack Mizzi wins Rapid and Blitz Grand Prix in style May 30th 2021 Young Jack Mizzi won both the final Rapid and Blitz tournaments in May and confirmed first place in both Grand Prix. Mizzi took the lead from the very first tournament in January and never looked back. In the Blitz, Mizzi won 4 […]
Online Rapid April tournament April 24th 2021 As in March, Robert Novak won the April Online Rapid tournament and Jack Mizzi ended runner-up. 16 players participated and surprise results happened as early as round 1. Marco Gaffarena beat Filipina Thornton who blundered a knight. Following this Marco trapped Filipina’s queen. The other surprise was Luc […]
Online Blitz April tournament April 11th 2021 17 players participated in the Online Blitz tournament of April. The two main contenders of the overall grand prix, Jack Mizzi and Robert Novak both took part. With Mizzi having a 10-point advantage, he only needed to finish ahead of Novak to win the whole series. Round 1 […]
Online Rapid March tournament March 27th 2021 20 players turned up for the Online March Rapid tournament. As he did in the Blitz, Robert Novak won the tournament – this time by winning all his games. In 2nd place, Jack Mizzi kept his consistency with 5 pts. Positions 3-6 all achieved 4 pts and only […]
Online Blitz March tournament March 13th 2021 A good turnout of 22 players logged online to play in the March online blitz tournament. Robert Novak won the tournament outright 1.5points ahead of the rest of the field. Conrad Thake ended in 2nd place having a better tie-break than Jack Mizzi (3rd), Colin Pace (4th) and […]
Online Rapid February tournament February 27th 2021 And it is 4 in a row for Jack Mizzi who also wins the Online Rapid February tournament. The rapid event attracted 17 players – the “slower” time of 5 mins + 5 sec for each move proving more popular than the very fast 3min + 2sec […]