The Malaysian Chess Festival is back! It is the longest running chess event classified as “chess festivals” in Asia. The 17th edition will be held again at Cititel Mid Valley from the 2nd to the 11th September 2022. The chess festival was interrupted for a two-year period due to Covid-19.
So what exactly is a Chess Festival? It is typicallly a chess event that includes all the variations in chess to encompass as many preference of the different chess enthusiasts as possible. For the Malaysian Chess Festival, there are a total of 9 chess events that run closely back-to-back over the duration of the festival. The events cover the Open, Senior, Age Groups as well as the junior categories. Besides that, there is two Chess Blitz competition.
The events are :
Prizes will be in the form of prize monies, medals, certificates and other prizes in kind. The Malaysia Chess Festival is arguably the most lucrative in the region with cash prizes in excess of US$ 28,000.
The Sponsors
None of these would have been possible without the generous sponsorships of retail, hospitality and property giant, IGB Berhad, Malaysian satellite television and internet protocol television provider, Astro, the Tan Chin Nam Foundation as well as Cititel Mid Valley, which serves as the official hotel and venue of the festival.
The Chess governing body, FIDE also provided monetary sponsorship to the festival.
With so much pent up energy for over the board chess, it is expected the festival will be one of the biggest ever compared to all previous editions.
This chess festival is endorsed by the Malaysian Chess Federation. Details of all the events can be found at the official website:
https://datchesscentre.com
Titled chess players are given exemptions of entry fees and they can contact the Organising Secretary, IA Hamid Majid, at +6019 315 8098 (Whatsapp) or email him at aham@pc.jaring.asia for more information.
The Malaysian Chess Festival logo contest has ended the winning logo is:
It's here again! The Malaysian Chess Festival 2022 after Covid has put it on ice for 2 years.
I am usually tasked with updating the official tournament site with information and downloads for the entry form. What I hate most is other blogs copying and pasting the tournament information and offering the entry form but putting up a duplicate copy on their own site or file hosting like Google docs.
I am not upset because of some petty reasons like "it this takes away importance" or "traffic" from the official site but when there are changes to the tournament information like hotel fees, tournament venue, technical information etc,, these changes won't be reflected in the copied information by these other websites or blogs.
For example, there are changes to the 2022 Malaysian Chess Festival that were just made and the new updated entry form published. Visitors of the official site will get the latest forms but if there are any "mirror" sites with the old forms, then there at would be problems.
I get it that chess bloggers are enthusiastic and want to help spread the word around using their resources like website or blogs but unless they are so efficient that they can update their sites as soon as the official site does it, they would be introducing confusion to would be participants.
Thankfully (or sadly), most chess blogs are dead in 2022 and I don't see any mirror site for the chess festival.
I am not against mirror sites but if you really want to be a mirror, at least link to the original forms for example, and not create a copy.
Talking about mirror sites. You can get to the chess festival via
or the mirror site
Here mirroring is fine because the contents are the exact same, only the URL is different.
Besides that the older datcc blog (https://datcchess.blogspot.com) will also be posting the same content as the official tournament website.
NOTE: please redownload the entry form as there are changes like the Cititel Venue is now official venue, the exchange rate for the Cititel rooms etc. Also follow the official site for the latest info!
Like a caveman I arrived at Cititel last month for the #MYchessFestival meeting confused about where the hotel parking space has gone. As ...
