{"id":73988,"date":"2025-05-22T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=73988"},"modified":"2025-05-21T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:14:24","slug":"300-chess-masters-to-compete-in-the-franco-nord-ouest-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/300-chess-masters-to-compete-in-the-franco-nord-ouest-chess-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"300 Chess Masters To compete in the Franco-Nord-Ouest Chess Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 22, 2025 at 08:00<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


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Over 300 young chess masters will meet in Wawa on Wednesday, May 28th, for the ninth Franco-Nord-Ouest Chess Tournament. The competition, hosted by \u00c9cole Saint-Joseph in Wawa, will bring together Francophone students from the following elementary and secondary schools: \u00c9cole Ste-Marie (Azilda), \u00c9cole Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur (Chapleau), \u00c9SC Trillium (Chapleau), \u00c9cole Alliance St-Joseph (Chelmsford), \u00c9cole St-Joseph (Dubreuilville), \u00c9cole Notre-Dame (Hamner), \u00c9cole Saint Nom de J\u00e9sus (Hornepayne), \u00c9cole St-Paul (Lively), \u00c9cole catholique Val-des-Bois (Marathon), \u00c9cole Notre-Dame-du-Sault (Sault-Ste-Marie), \u00c9cole \u00c9cho-des-Rapides (Sault-Ste-Marie), \u00c9S Notre- Dame-du-Sault (Sault-Ste-Marie), \u00c9cole Sainte-Anne (Spanish), \u00c9cole St-Denis (Sudbury), \u00c9cole Ste-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se (Val Th\u00e9r\u00e8se), \u00c9cole l\u2019Escalade (Wawa), \u00c9cole Saint-Joseph (Wawa) et \u00c9S Saint-Joseph (Wawa). This year, students from nearly 20 French-language Catholic and public schools are taking part in this competition.<\/p>\n

The tournament will take place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Michipicoten Memorial Community Centre (3 Chris Simon Drive, Wawa). All participants will be able to play five games. Competing players will be divided in four categories: grades 3 and 4, grades 5 and 6, grades 7 and 8, and grades 9 to 12. Prizes will be awarded to winning teams and top students in each category.<\/p>\n

Students from \u00c9cole Saint-Joseph (Wawa) have acquired a reputation for their passion for chess, a discipline that calls upon strategic finesse, memory, and problem-solving skills. By hosting this friendly francophone tournament, the school aims to allow more students from Northwestern Ontario and beyond to discover chess and improve their skills in this discipline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 22, 2025 at 08:00 Over 300 young chess masters will meet in Wawa on Wednesday, May 28th, for the ninth Franco-Nord-Ouest Chess Tournament. The competition, hosted by \u00c9cole Saint-Joseph in Wawa, will bring together Francophone students from the following elementary and secondary schools: \u00c9cole Ste-Marie (Azilda), \u00c9cole Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur (Chapleau), \u00c9SC Trillium (Chapleau), \u00c9cole Alliance …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":73989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 14:28:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73990,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73988\/revisions\/73990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}