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2025 North American Youth Chess Ch. - Girls U10

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20 players participated in this 9-round tournament, held from 18 Aug 2025 to 23 Aug 2025 in Kingston, ON, Canada. 3 titled players from 2 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 1644, and top seed was Abigail Zhou (🇺🇸 USA, WCM, 1869).

Abigail Zhou (🇺🇸 USA, WCM, 1869) won with 8.0/9, ahead of Wan Qin Li (6.5) and Aanya Parul Karthikeyan (6.0). Zhou won solo starting round 5.

The biggest upset came in round 6: Florence Zixin Xu (1468) beat Shanna Wu (1782), a +314-point gap.

Location
🇨🇦Kingston, ON, Canada
Dates
18 Aug 2025 → 23 Aug 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 9 rounds
Top seed
🇺🇸WCMAbigail Zhou1869
Avg top 10
1,644
Participants
20
Titled players · 3
WCM×3
Federations · 2 represented
🇺🇸United States of America×13
🇨🇦Canada×7
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 9 rounds

WCM Abigail Zhou led from R5; +1.5-point edge over the runner-up. Title race converged from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R5.

Co-leaders
8
2
4
2
1
1
1
1
1
2.54.579R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9
Zhou8Li6.5Parul Karthikeyan6Thottimpudi6Nguyen6Xu5
R5–R9 · LEAD HELD

WCM Abigail Zhou never relinquished the lead after R5; final gap +1.5 over the runner-up.

R5 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

WCM Abigail Zhou beat WCM Wan Qin Li (White).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

WCM Abigail Zhou 3 wins (R7–R9)Aanya Parul Karthikeyan 3 wins (R3–R5)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1WCMAbigail Zhou*
1
½
½
2WCMWan Qin Li
0
*
1
1
3Aanya Parul Karthikeyan
½
0
*
1
4Anjana Thottimpudi
½
0
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Zhou, AbigailWCM1869USA+7B+6N=4B+5N+2B=3N+13B+12N+8B8.043.047.041.001967+33.2
2Li, Wan QinWCM1760USA+17B=5N+8B+4N−1N+6B+3B−7N+12B6.544.547.031.001779+12.0
3Parul Karthikeyan, Aanya1493USA=10B=12N+7B+17N+14B=1B−2N+4N=5B6.043.546.028.251724+82.8
4Thottimpudi, Anjana1687USA+18N+9B=1N−2B+13N+14B=5N−3B+7B6.043.545.526.001645-12.8
5Nguyen, Sarah1592USA+19N=2B+13N−1B=6N+9B=4B+14N=3N6.043.545.025.251689+36.4
6Zhou, ElizabethWCM1678USA+15B−1B=10N+12N=5B−2N+9B−8N+13B5.042.045.521.251625-19.2
7Xu, Florence Zixin1468CAN−1N+15B−3N+19N=17B+8N=12B+2B−4N5.041.042.519.251631+42.4
8Wu, Shanna1782USA+14N=13B−2N=9B=10N−7B+16N+6B−1N4.541.044.018.001607-57.6
9Zhang, Laticia0CAN+16B−4N=12B=8N+11B−5N−6N=10B+18N4.537.539.516.0015030.0
10Ramesh, Kavya0USA=3N+11B=6B−14N=8B−12N=15B=9N+16B4.535.538.519.2515140.0
11Patibandla, Naina0USA=12B−10N−17B+15N−9N=16B+18B=13N+19B4.528.029.512.5015250.0
12Divadalage, Sanya1540CAN=11N=3B=9N−6B+18N+10B=7N−1B−2N4.044.046.016.501413-33.2
13Guo, Loida1547USA+20B=8N−5B+16N−4B+17N−1N=11B−6N4.039.540.010.501490-19.6
14Sreekumar, Gayathri1442CAN−8B+20N+16B+10B−3N−4NF−5B=15N3.536.036.59.751369-18.8
15Lin, Amy0USA−6N−7N+20B−11B=16N+19B=10N−18B=14B3.529.029.57.5013250.0
16Gao, Isabella1490USA−9N+18B−14N−13B=15B=11N−8B+19N−10N3.031.032.57.50790-45.6
17Austin, Hazel0USA−2N+19B+11N−3B=7N−13BFFF2.531.031.08.5012440.0
18Hong, Angela0CAN−4B−16N−19B+20N−12BF−11N+15N−9B2.027.527.54.007720.0
19Lou, Evelyn0CAN−5B−17N+18N−7B=20B−15NF−16B−11N1.527.027.02.257150.0
20Nagnibedovsky, Elizabeth0CAN−13N−14B−15N−18B=19NFFFF0.514.514.50.756950.0

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets