Johnson, Joshua

Joshua Johnson, a 27-year-old FIDE Master, is rated 2220 and sitting in the top 3% of players worldwide. He has slipped back 47 Elo over the past 12 months. 47 rated games in the past year (≈52/year long-term). Recent standard appearances include 2026 Sittu Chess Championship - Group A, National Chess Championships 2025 - Open, and CARICOM Classic Team Tournament 2025. Also played 4 rapid (including Clasificatorio Masculino XXV Juegos Centroamericanos y C, RD 2026) and 4 blitz events (including CARICOM Blitz 2025) recently. His peak of 2337 was reached at age 24 (Nov 2023); he also reached #1 nationally in Dec 2016 and has been in top 3 for 84 months and counting (3 consecutive years on his current run).

Competes for Trinidad and Tobago since Aug 2013. Awarded FM in 2014 (age 15) and CM in 2014 (age 15). Earned IM norms at 2017 Central American and Caribbean Under 20 Absolute, Camp Centroamericano y del Caribe Sub-20 Absoluto 2018, Central American and Caribbean Under 20 Absolute 2019, and XVI Camp Cont Abs 2023. At junior level, he reached World #39 in U10 and #1, #1, #1, #1 and #1 nationally in U20, U18, U16, U14 and U12.