They were the champions

The Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF) was founded in 1974. In the MCF’s 32-year history, the national closed chess championship has been held every year except in 1988. 

For a long time, even the MCF itself had lost track of the people who had won the highest chess title in the country but in the last few months, the MCF began piecing together its chess history to come out with a roll call of our national champions.