Malaysian Chess Championship

Known as the National Closed Chess Championship prior to 2016, the first edition was held in 1974.

A separate Malaysian Women's Chess Championship has also been held annually since 1990.

FIDE Master Christi Hon has won the national title a record five times, while Woman International Master Siti Zulaikha Foudzi has won the women's title a record eight times.

It has occurred twice that a pair of siblings have won the national and the women's titles in the same year: Kamal Ariffin Wahiddudin and Nurul Huda Wahiduddin in 1991, and Zarul Shazwan Zullkafli and Nur Shazwani Zullkafli in 2007.

[7] Afterwards, national championships in Malaysia were held irregularly due to a lack of organizers.