Indian Youth Chess Championship

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The National Youth Chess Championship (India) are the premier annual youth chess championship tournaments held in both open and girls categories for participants in under-7, under-9, under-11, under-13, under-15 and under-17 age categories in India. The tournament is held annually under the auspices of the All India Chess Federation and FIDE. This event is open to players from all the States and union territories of India. The tournament has 6 age brackets, in two-year increments, from U7 (under-7) to U17 (under-17). For each age bracket, there is an open championship and a separate championship for girls. Winners of each category are awarded the title of Indian Youth Champion, and top finishers earn direct FIDE titles such as Candidate Master (CM), FIDE Master (FM), International Master (IM), Woman Candidate Master (WCM), Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and Woman International Master (WIM), depending on section and performance.

Under FIDE regulations, continental youth champions are entitled to personal rights to participate in the corresponding World Cadet Chess Championship (Under-8 to Under-12) or World Youth Chess Championship (Under-14 to Under-18).[1] Besides Indian Youth Chess Championship, there are National Junior Chess Championship (India) and National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India) for under-19 (Open) and under-19 girls categories. Indian Chess Championship is the National Chess Championship in Open and Women categories where all age categories can participate for the coveted National Chess Championship title.

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2011Panda Sambit[2]Saurabh Anand[3]Prathish A[4]Aravindh Chithambaram[5]Sai Krishna G V[6]Navalgund Niranjan[7]
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2013Dev Shah (Chess)[8]Nihal Sarin[9]Ram Aravind L N[10]Harsha Bharathakoti[11]Karthikeyan Murali[12]Sayantan Das[13]
2014Shahil Dey[14]Raunak Sadhwani[15]Ram Aravind L N[16]Hirthickkesh PR[17]Aravindh Chithambaram[18]Aradhya Garg[19]
2015Midilesh MS[20]Pranav Venkatesh[21]Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu[22]Neelash Saha[23]Mitrabha Guha[24]Rajdeep Sarkar[25]
2016Priansh Das[26]Shahil Dey[27]Manish Anto Cristiano F[28]Erigaisi Arjun[29]Mitrabha Guha[30]Sai Vishwesh.C[31]
2017Shashank V S[32]Kadam Om Manish[33]Gukesh D[34]Raja Rithvik R[35]Sankalp Gupta[36]Raja Rithvik R[37]
2018Amogh Bisht[38]Ilamparthi A. R.[39]Dev Shah (Chess)[40]Aaryan Varshney[41]Ajay Karthikeyan[42]Vedant Panesar[43]
2019Sri Akhil Prasad[44]Aakash G[45]Mayank Chakraborty[46]Pranesh M[47]Raja Rithvik R[48]Neelash Saha[49]
2020Not held due to COVID-19 pandemicNot held due to COVID-19 pandemicNot held due to COVID-19 pandemicNot held due to COVID-19 pandemicNot held due to COVID-19 pandemicNot held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021Avirat Chauhan[50]Vivaan Vishal Shah[51]Goutham Krishna H[52]John Veny Akkarakaran[53]Pranesh M[54]Soham Kamotra[55]
2022Nidhish Shyamal[56]Madhvendra Pratap Sharma[57]Jval Saurin Patel[58]Daakshin Arun[59]Aswath S[60]Mayank Chakraborty[61]
2023Mani Sarbartho[62]Advik Amit Agrawal[63]Aansh Nandan Nerurkar[64]Sharnarthi Viresh[65]Daksh Goyal[66]Mayank Chakraborty[67]
2024Devanarayanan Kalliyath[68]Nidhish Shyamal[69]Madhvendra Pratap Sharma[70]Reyan Md.[71]Ilamparthi A. R.[72]Sriram Adarsh Uppala[73]
2025Evan Antonio Telles[74]Sattwik Swain[75]Aarit Kapil[76]Badole Shaunak[77]Goutham Krishna H[78]

Girls championship winners (Gold medalists/champions)

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