This year Inter-State will take place in Kuantan, Pahang from 25 Nov to 28 Nov 2016.
The eligibility for player to represent a State is based on "1 player, 1 State policy" for the Calendar year. This policy is in place w.e.f. 2014.
The events that have States representation for 2016 are National Age Group, Malaysian Championship, MSSM, Astro Merdeka Team and Datin Yee Wai Fong U12 Team.
Any player who has / had violated this policy isn't allow to represent any State in this upcoming event in the same Calendar Year.
For example, the players from the following list extracted from Malaysian Chess Championship are not eligible to represent other State in the upcoming event:-
| Malaysian Chess Championship 2016 (Open) | ||||||
| Final ranking | ||||||
| Club JOH | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 28 | 68 | Muhd Saifullah Al Murishi | 1450 | 5 | ||
| Club KED | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 30 | 52 | Muhd Rafiquzzaman Abdullah | 1628 | U18 | 5 | |
| Club KEL | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 16 | 5 | AGM | Nik Ahmad Farouqi Nik Abdul Aziz | 2088 | 5½ | |
| 42 | 41 | Wan Mohd Azmie Wan Abd Rahman | 1623 | 4 | ||
| Club KL | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 4 | 13 | Lye Lik Zang | 2004 | U12 | 6½ | |
| 12 | 2 | CM | Ng Jen Sheng | 2206 | U16 | 6 |
| 18 | 27 | Shreyes Subramaniam | 1865 | U18 | 5 | |
| 21 | 11 | Dawson Tan Soon Wei | 2022 | U18 | 5 | |
| Club NS | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 11 | 23 | Subramanian Sivanesan | 1897 | U18 | 6 | |
| Club PER | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 47 | 56 | Noor Amin Ahmad | 1426 | 4 | ||
| Club PHG | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 33 | 44 | Muhd Asyraf Razman | 1525 | U16 | 4½ | |
| 57 | 65 | Ahmad Farhan Hakim Rosely | 1329 | U16 | 3½ | |
| 67 | 64 | Muhd Aliff Nor Amli | 1338 | U12 | 1½ | |
| Club PJ | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 49 | 47 | Mukhriez Shah Mahmood Shah | 1402 | U12 | 4 | |
| Club PP | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 7 | 15 | CM | Tan Jun Ying | 1985 | U14 | 6 |
| 8 | 3 | FM | Wong Yinn Long | 2205 | U14 | 6 |
| 9 | 8 | FM | Ismail Ahmad | 2056 | S50 | 6 |
| 14 | 31 | Chuah Hao Feng | 1774 | U18 | 5½ | |
| 15 | 22 | Ryan Chan Yi Meng | 1922 | U14 | 5½ | |
| 19 | 4 | Eric Cheah | 2162 | 5 | ||
| 20 | 25 | Lieu Chin Yung | 1871 | 5 | ||
| 31 | 49 | Eng Jia Qian | 1357 | U14 | 4½ | |
| Club PRK | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 5 | 7 | CM | Fong Yit San | 2074 | 6½ | |
| Club SBH | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 2 | 40 | Awang Mohd Syafie Mohd Kifflee | 1646 | 6½ | ||
| 3 | 14 | Faizal Andin | 1993 | 6½ | ||
| 10 | 19 | Masrin Erowan | 1964 | 6 | ||
| 22 | 20 | Sulaiman Jamal | 1949 | 5 | ||
| 24 | 17 | Al-Kamil Kamin | 1982 | 5 | ||
| 25 | 37 | Melvin Sham Malim | 1684 | 5 | ||
| 26 | 50 | Gazalee Mohd Ismail | 1702 | 5 | ||
| 27 | 24 | Abdul Wahab Abu Bakar | 1874 | 5 | ||
| Club SEL | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 1 | 1 | FM | Yeoh Li Tian | 2397 | U18 | 8 |
| 6 | 35 | Kabir Singh Ajeet Singh | 1725 | U16 | 6½ | |
| 13 | 6 | Mohd Kamal Abdullah | 2085 | 5½ | ||
| 17 | 9 | Mohd Saprin Sabri | 2050 | 5½ | ||
| 34 | 43 | Cheah Kah Hoe | 1591 | U12 | 4½ | |
| 51 | 30 | Teh Wee Zhun | 1789 | 3½ | ||
| Club SWK | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 29 | 33 | Lim Kian Hwa | 1765 | S50 | 5 | |
| 50 | 63 | Ahmad Afiq Adzly Rosli | 1377 | U16 | 4 | |
| 68 | 59 | Muhd AlFaiz Daud | 1418 | U14 | 0 | |
| Club TRG | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 23 | 10 | Muhd Syazwan Zulkifli | 2032 | 5 | ||
| Club WPL | ||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | |
| 59 | 21 | Mohd Noor Othman | 1945 | 3 | ||
| Malaysian Chess Championship 2016 (Women) | |||||||
| Final ranking | |||||||
| Club KL | |||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | ||
| 2 | 8 | Rosamund Koo Wei Xin | F | 1820 | U18 | 6½ | |
| 3 | 1 | WFM | Tan Li Ting | F | 2047 | U18 | 6 |
| 6 | 5 | WFM | Camilia Johari | F | 1877 | U18 | 6 |
| 10 | 14 | Melanie Koo Wei Wei | F | 1605 | U16 | 5 | |
| 24 | 15 | Tan Wei Ting | F | 1412 | U16 | 3 | |
| Club NS | |||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | ||
| 4 | 6 | Nithyalakshmi Sivanesan | F | 1844 | U16 | 6 | |
| Club PHG | |||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | ||
| 17 | 12 | Nur Sabrina Aliya Asman | F | 1670 | U18 | 4 | |
| 20 | 19 | Nurkamilia Batrisya Roszaman | F | 1451 | U12 | 3½ | |
| Club PJ | |||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | ||
| 13 | 10 | Nurul Najmi Bakar | F | 1733 | 5 | ||
| Club PP | |||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | ||
| 8 | 9 | Chuah Yi Ning | F | 1753 | U18 | 5½ | |
| 9 | 13 | Chua Jia-Tien | F | 1630 | U14 | 5 | |
| 11 | 17 | Sim Jia Ru | F | 1261 | U12 | 5 | |
| 23 | 18 | Agnes Chong Kai Ni | F | 1556 | U10 | 3 | |
| Club PRK | |||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | ||
| 16 | 7 | WCM | Fong Mi Yen | F | 1824 | 4½ | |
| Club SBH | |||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | ||
| 12 | 23 | Vianna Dennia Daniel | F | 1394 | U16 | 5 | |
| 18 | 25 | Jennica Fay Jossly | F | 1329 | U18 | 4 | |
| 19 | 20 | Chiew Ying Xuan | F | 1448 | U12 | 4 | |
| 21 | 24 | Claribel Crystal Lupi | F | 1364 | U16 | 3½ | |
| 22 | 26 | Sherry Joelle | F | 1306 | U18 | 3½ | |
| 25 | 22 | Nur Fateen Helmy Abdellah Nazeer | F | 1398 | 3 | ||
| 26 | 28 | Siti Zulaikha Ahnan | F | 1259 | 3 | ||
| 27 | 27 | Nurfahmee Aiman Hakeem Nazeer | F | 1282 | 3 | ||
| Club SEL | |||||||
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | Type | Pts | ||
| 1 | 3 | WCM | Nur Nabila Azman Hisham | F | 2013 | U20 | 7 |
| 5 | 4 | WFM | Puteri Rifqah Fahada Azhar | F | 1901 | U16 | 6 |
| 7 | 2 | WFM | Nur Najiha Azman Hisham | F | 2039 | U18 | 5½ |
| 14 | 16 | Chin Shun Yi | F | 1297 | U18 | 5 | |
| 15 | 11 | Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa Azhar | F | 1713 | U16 | 4½ | |
