{"id":250,"date":"2018-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2018\/03\/12\/draughts-section-begins-at-etche-sports-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T08:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T08:17:52","slug":"draughts-section-begins-at-etche-sports-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/draughts-section-begins-at-etche-sports-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Draughts section begins at Etche sports Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:left;height:0px\"><\/span><span style=\"width:auto;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;clear:left;margin-top:0px\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/img-20161227-wa0005_orig.jpg\" style=\"margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 10px;border-width:1px;padding:3px;max-width:100%\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder wsite-image\" title=\"Draughts section begins at Etche sports Festival\"><\/a><span style=\"caption-side: bottom;font-size: 90%;margin-top: -10px;margin-bottom: 10px;text-align: center\" class=\"wsite-caption\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\"><font size=\"4\">The draughts section of the Etche Sports Festival began on Monday, December 26 at the Okomoko Town Square.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Draughts, a new addition to the Festival which was previously all about football attracted a registration fee of two hundred naira which was later increased to five hundred because of the large turn out of entrants.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>All preliminary games were played on Monday, December 26.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>After the preliminary round matches, Paul Omdu, Mike Nwala, Uche Nwalevy and Naked Nwala qualified for the semifinals.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Dr. Uzoma Nwankwo, who alongside his friends and Associates put the Etche Sports Festival together told the media on Monday the idea of the draughts section was to get everybody involved.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cEverybody likes to play in and watch football tournaments, but not everybody can play in them.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cThere are the elderly people who also want to be involved too and draughts is a chance for them to be involved.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cThis is the first time we are organizing a draughts competition and I am happy with the turn out. Hopefully, it will be even much better next year,\u201d Nwankwo said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The semifinals, 3rd place match and final of the Draughts section will be played on January 1, 2017.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draughts section of the Etche Sports Festival began on Monday, December 26 at the Okomoko Town Square.\u00a0Draughts, a new addition to the Festival which was previously all about football attracted a registration fee of two hundred naira which was later increased to five hundred because of the large turn out of entrants.\u00a0All preliminary games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"china","author_link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/author\/china\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The draughts section of the Etche Sports Festival began on Monday, December 26 at the Okomoko Town Square.\u00a0Draughts, a new addition to the Festival which was previously all about football attracted a registration fee of two hundred naira which was later increased to five hundred because of the large turn out of entrants.\u00a0All preliminary games&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}