{"id":65564,"date":"2018-05-22T05:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=65564"},"modified":"2018-05-22T05:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:13:33","slug":"chess-duo-stumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/22\/chess-duo-stumbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess duo stumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s chess players, Richard Chiona and Daisy Nkhoma, finished on positions 28 and 17 in the open and ladies\u2019 categories, respectively, at the Africa Individual Chess Championship held in Livingstone, Zambia, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The open section had 30 participants while 20 players competed in the ladies\u2019 section.<\/p>\n<p>Chiona won three games, including against Angolan international master, Pedro Aderito, and lost six games.<\/p>\n<p>Nkhoma won three matches, drew once and lost five times. Nkhoma, among other players, beat Mdina Malawi open ladies\u2019 champion, Phylis Mwilola, of Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>After the games, Nkhoma said, despite the loss, the competition was a good platform for Batumi World Chess Olympiad rehearsals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing went wrong; it was a good competition and it was too competitive. Experience has been gained by playing against great chess players from Africa,\u201d Nkhoma said.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian Grandmaster Amin Baseem won the open section while another Egyptian, Wafa Sahenda, claimed the ladies\u2019 section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi\u2019s chess players, Richard Chiona and Daisy Nkhoma, finished on positions 28 and 17 in the open and ladies\u2019 categories, respectively, at the Africa Individual Chess Championship held in Livingstone, Zambia, on Sunday. The open section had 30 participants while 20 players competed in the ladies\u2019 section. Chiona won three games, including against Angolan international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65564","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\/65564","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=65564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65569,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65564\/revisions\/65569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}