{"id":12130,"date":"2015-11-17T07:46:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T07:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2015-11-17T07:46:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T07:46:58","slug":"chessam-identifies-junior-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/11\/17\/chessam-identifies-junior-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Chessam identifies junior squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C<\/strong>hess Association of Malawi (Chessam) has identified a junior national squad to represent the country at Africa Junior Chess Championship in Zambia next month.<\/p>\n<p>The identification follows a day-long qualifying tournament held at Saint Andrews International High School in Blantyre over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>According to stand- in national coordinator for Chess in schools, Margaret Ngugama, the qualifying games were competitive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tournament was so tight that we had to use play-offs to break some ties,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the qualifying tournament, the following players qualified; Zane Sheriff (under- 8), Yebo Sanga (under-10), Tafadzwa Linje (under-12), Gift Wayilala (under-14), Davies Ngwira (under-16) and Martin Namakhwa (under-18) in boys\u2019 category.<\/p>\n<p>The girls\u2019 category saw Daisy Huwa (under-8), Mishelle Chimbe (under-10), Anne \u00a0imwawa (under-12), Oprah Phiri (under -14), Ulemu Mbewe (under-16) and Tupokiwe Msukwa (under-18) qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite dramatic in the girls\u2019 under-16 category, when last year\u2019s representative, Ulemu Mbewe, had to qualify by the skin of her teeth as she was dragged to a tricky play-off against Lilongwebased, Jennifer Mwenebanda, which she won by half a point.<\/p>\n<p>Missing out from the list is last year\u2019s boys\u2019 representative, Adrian Mhango, who is currently studying in Russia following the Degree with Chess Specialisation Scholarship he won last month.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ngugama said the juniors that did not qualify can still make it to Zambia if they find their own transport and accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>The Africa champion will take place from December 7 to 13 in Lusaka, Zambia. Chessam publicist, Makhosi Nyirenda, said the players would have to be thoroughly drilled before leaving for Zambia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) has identified a junior national squad to represent the country at Africa Junior Chess Championship in Zambia next month. The identification follows a day-long qualifying tournament held at Saint Andrews International High School in Blantyre over the weekend. According to stand- in national coordinator for Chess in schools, Margaret Ngugama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12138,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12130\/revisions\/12138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}