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National Youth Chess Championship 2026 - Under 12 Female

Double Round-RobinStandard
Location
🇹🇹Couva, Trinidad and Tobago
Dates
17 Jan 2026 → 24 Jan 2026
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Double RR · 6 rounds
Top seed
🇹🇹Catherine Ali1460
Avg top 10
716
Participants
4
Federations · 1 represented
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago×2
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 4 · 6 rounds

Catherine Ali led from R5; +1.0-point edge over the runner-up. Title race converged from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R5.

Co-leaders
2
1
3
2
1
1
1.534.56R1R2R3R4R5R6Ali takes lead
Ali5Joseph430
R5 · LEADER CHANGE24 Jan

Catherine Ali takes the sole lead (4.0/5).

HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND · 2 games

Catherine Ali 2.0–0.0 against Breanna Joseph (R1 1-0, R4 1-0) — decisive in 2/2.

R3–R6 · WIN STREAK

Catherine Ali won 4 in a row (R3–R6).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Catherine Ali*
1
1
0
1
1
1
2Breanna Joseph
0
0
*
1
1
1
1
3FIDE 7715846
1
0
0
0
*
1
1
4FIDE 7716796
0
0
0
0
0
0
*

Cross-table

#PlayerElo1234PtsSBBhΔ EloPerf
1🇹🇹Ali, Catherine1460*
11
10
11
5.011.0014.0+32.82203
3🇹🇹Joseph, Breanna1403
00
*
11
11
4.06.0016.0-32.8667
2FIDE 77158460
10
00
*
11
3.05.0018.00.01242
4FIDE 77167960
00
00
00
*0.00.0024.00.0635

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

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