The TTCA invites all Youth chess players to partake in the National Youth Chess Championships 2026 in the following categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, U18. Details and Registration Link below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udcc5 Date:<\/strong> January 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th 2026 Registration closes January 15th 8:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Payment can be made directly to the TTCA’s First Citizen’s Account: Round 1 – 10:00 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n Round 2 – 4:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n Round 3 – 9:00 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n Round 4 – 3:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n Round 5 – 9:00 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n Round 6 – 3:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n Round 7 – 9:00 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schedule may change per age group category based on number of players entered in the age group and whether a Swiss or Round Robin pairing format is used at the discretion of the Chief Arbiter\/ Tournament Director. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The TTCA invites all Youth chess players to partake in the National Youth Chess Championships 2026 in the following categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, U18. Details and Registration Link below. \ud83d\udcc5 Date: January 17th, 18th,Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local_tournaments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"TTCA","author_link":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/author\/ttca\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Local Tournaments<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The TTCA invites all Youth chess players to partake in the National Youth Chess Championships 2026 in the following categories: U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, U18. Details and Registration Link below. \ud83d\udcc5 Date: January 17th, 18th,Read More","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ud83d\udccd Venue:<\/strong> Preysal Secondary (Confirmed!)<\/strong>
\u23f1 Time Control:<\/strong> 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move 1
\ud83d\udd58 Roll Call:<\/strong> 8:30 AM (If not present by 9:15am, will not be paired for round 1)
\ud83d\udcb5 Registration Fee: $100.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Name on Account: Trinidad and Tobago Chess Association
Account number: 2016302
Bank: First Citizens Bank
Address: 1 Woodbrook Place<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Default time is 30 minutes. Players must be present before the start of Round 1 to be paired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n