{"id":2150,"date":"2025-03-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/wolmers-boys-national-chess-champions-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:57:00","slug":"wolmers-boys-national-chess-champions-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-sports\/wolmers-boys-national-chess-champions-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolmer\u2019s Boys \u2018A\u2019 win the 2025 National High School Chess Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2025\/03\/02\/wolmers-boys-top-national-high-school-chess-champs\/\">Jamaica Observer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-boys-national-chess-champions-2025-feat.jpg\" alt=\"Jamaica Chess Federation secretary Maxine Brown presents the trophy to Wolmer\u2019s Boys captain FM Jaden Shaw. Jamaica Observer\" class=\"wp-image-2149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-boys-national-chess-champions-2025-feat.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-boys-national-chess-champions-2025-feat-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-boys-national-chess-champions-2025-feat-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/wolmers-boys-national-chess-champions-2025-feat-600x313.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jamaica Chess Federation secretary Maxine Brown presents the trophy to Wolmer\u2019s Boys captain FM Jaden Shaw. Jamaica Observer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wolmer\u2019s Boys\u2019 \u2018A\u2019 team won the 2025 National High School Chess Championships, contested over two days and six rounds at Calabar High School, the Observer reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team scored a perfect 20 wins from 20 games in the preliminary round. In the finals they recorded 16 wins, six draws and two losses. Campion College \u2018A\u2019 finished second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIDE Master Jaden Shaw, the captain, scored 6\/6 on board one. Corbin Harvey scored 5.5\/6 on board two. Shaw dedicated the win to the Wolmer\u2019s schools community ahead of the 296th anniversary on 21 May 2025. Warren Elliott is named as head coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2025\/03\/02\/wolmers-boys-top-national-high-school-chess-champs\/\">Jamaica Observer<\/a>, March 2, 2025. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jamaica Observer March 2, 2025 Wolmer\u2019s Boys\u2019 \u2018A\u2019 team won the 2025 National High School Chess Championships, contested over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}