{"id":30688,"date":"2016-08-26T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T09:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=30688"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T09:41:32","slug":"kumudzi-centre-donates-to-chess-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/08\/26\/kumudzi-centre-donates-to-chess-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumudzi Centre donates to chess team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Chess National Team got a timely boost last Sunday when Kumudzi Centre, a Lilongwe recreation facility, donated 15 Jerseys to the side.<\/p>\n<p>The team is bound for Baku Chess Olympiad in Azerbaijan, Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Team Leader, Alfred Chimthere, said the jerseys were a timely motivation ahead of the Olympiad. The team will leave for Baku at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will certainly improve our morale. We need uniforms for identification, among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) Vice- President, Mark Chikoko, thanked Kumudzi for the kind gesture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge other well-wishers to come to our aid so that the team should do well. It is an international tournament and having uniforms helps players to play with confidence,\u201d Chikoko said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chess Olympiad is the biggest chess event in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Full squad: Ellen Mpinganjira, Linda Jambo, Tupokiwe Msukwa and Vitumbiko Gondwe (ladies), Alfred Chimthere, Chiletso Chipanga, Paul Kuphwathea, Petros Mfune and Gerald Mphungu (men).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Chess National Team got a timely boost last Sunday when Kumudzi Centre, a Lilongwe recreation facility, donated 15 Jerseys to the side. The team is bound for Baku Chess Olympiad in Azerbaijan, Eastern Europe. Team Leader, Alfred Chimthere, said the jerseys were a timely motivation ahead of the Olympiad. The team will leave for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30688","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\/30688","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=30688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30690,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688\/revisions\/30690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}