{"id":43720,"date":"2017-04-03T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=43720"},"modified":"2017-04-03T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T06:58:08","slug":"mdina-open-chess-championship-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/04\/03\/mdina-open-chess-championship-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Mdina Open chess championship in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) has announced the dates for the Mdina-sponsored Malawi Open Chess Championship scheduled for Mzuzu in August.<\/p>\n<p>Chessam publicist, Makhosi Nyirenda, said the annual championship will take place at Crest Ilala Lounge from August 24 to 27.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is on after a commitment from South Africa based Malawian sponsor, Tiwone Mdina, to bankroll the event to the tune of K1 million for the third time in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Nyirenda said the event will be played in open and ladies categories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe championship is open to all federations affiliated to Fide [world chess federations]. However, local players\u2019 slots will be limited to eight each for Southern Region Chess League (SRCL) and Central Region Chess League (CCRL) and 10 for the host region, while the ladies categories slots will be limited to five each for SRCL, CRCL and NRCL. Top players will make it to the finals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nyirenda also said Malawians players based in Diaspora can apply for exemption for the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs usual, last year\u2019s champions of both categories will be exempted from the qualifying round,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 2009, the championship has now grown into an international event with Zambian Candidate Master, Godfrey Phiri, winning last year\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chess Association of Malawi (Chessam) has announced the dates for the Mdina-sponsored Malawi Open Chess Championship scheduled for Mzuzu in August. Chessam publicist, Makhosi Nyirenda, said the annual championship will take place at Crest Ilala Lounge from August 24 to 27. The competition is on after a commitment from South Africa based Malawian sponsor, Tiwone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43720","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\/43720","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=43720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43724,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43720\/revisions\/43724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}