Indian Youth Chess Championship

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.

Year	U7	U9	U11	U13	U15	U17
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011	Panda Sambit[2]	Saurabh Anand[3]	Prathish A[4]	Aravindh Chithambaram[5]	Sai Krishna G V[6]	Navalgund Niranjan[7]
2012
2013	Dev Shah (Chess)[8]	Nihal Sarin[9]	Ram Aravind L N[10]	Harsha Bharathakoti[11]	Karthikeyan Murali[12]	Sayantan Das[13]
2014	Shahil Dey[14]	Raunak Sadhwani[15]	Ram Aravind L N[16]	Hirthickkesh PR[17]	Aravindh Chithambaram[18]	Aradhya Garg[19]
2015	Midilesh MS[20]	Pranav Venkatesh[21]	Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu[22]	Neelash Saha[23]	Mitrabha Guha[24]	Rajdeep Sarkar[25]
2016	Priansh Das[26]	Shahil Dey[27]	Manish Anto Cristiano F[28]	Erigaisi Arjun[29]	Mitrabha Guha[30]	Sai Vishwesh.C[31]
2017	Shashank V S[32]	Kadam Om Manish[33]	Gukesh D[34]	Raja Rithvik R[35]	Sankalp Gupta[36]	Raja Rithvik R[37]
2018	Amogh Bisht[38]	Ilamparthi A. R.[39]	Dev Shah (Chess)[40]	Aaryan Varshney[41]	Ajay Karthikeyan[42]	Vedant Panesar[43]
2019	Sri Akhil Prasad[44]	Aakash G[45]	Mayank Chakraborty[46]	Pranesh M[47]	Raja Rithvik R[48]	Neelash Saha[49]
2020	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Avirat Chauhan[50]	Vivaan Vishal Shah[51]	Goutham Krishna H[52]	John Veny Akkarakaran[53]	Pranesh M[54]	Soham Kamotra[55]
2022	Nidhish Shyamal[56]	Madhvendra Pratap Sharma[57]	Jval Saurin Patel[58]	Daakshin Arun[59]	Aswath S[60]	Mayank Chakraborty[61]
2023	Mani Sarbartho[62]	Advik Amit Agrawal[63]	Aansh Nandan Nerurkar[64]	Sharnarthi Viresh[65]	Daksh Goyal[66]	Mayank Chakraborty[67]
2024	Devanarayanan Kalliyath[68]	Nidhish Shyamal[69]	Madhvendra Pratap Sharma[70]	Reyan Md.[71]	Ilamparthi A. R.[72]	Sriram Adarsh Uppala[73]
2025	Evan Antonio Telles[74]	Sattwik Swain[75]	Aarit Kapil[76]	Badole Shaunak[77]	Goutham Krishna H[78]

Year	U7	U9	U11	U13	U15	U17
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998						Aarthie Ramaswamy[79]
1999						Aarthie Ramaswamy[80]
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005			Padmini Rout
2006				Padmini Rout
2007			P. V. Nandhidhaa[81]
2008
2009
2010					P. V. Nandhidhaa
2011	Saina Salonika[82]	Nutakki Priyanka[83]	Riya Savant[84]	Monnisha G K[85]	Michelle Catherina P[86]	Monnisha G K[87]
2012	Divya Deshmukh[88]	Savitha Shri Baskar	Vaishali Rameshbabu[89]	Vaishali Rameshbabu[90]	Srija Seshadri[91]	Pratyusha Bodda[92]
2013	Darsana M S[93]	Divya Deshmukh[94]	Nutakki Priyanka[95]	Aakanksha Hagawane[96]	Monnisha G K[97]	P. V. Nandhidhaa[98][99]
2014	Yashavishree N[100]	Rakshitta Ravi[101]	Lakshmi C[102]	Vaishali Rameshbabu[103]	Vaishali Rameshbabu[104]	Varshini V[105]
2015	Anagha K G R[106]	Darsana M S[107]	Mrudul Dehankar[108]	Nutakki Priyanka[109]	Harshita Guddanti[110]	Varshini V[111]
2016	Shefali A N[112]	Savitha Shri Baskar[113]	Divya Deshmukh[114]	Jishitha D[115]	Harshita Guddanti[116]	Aakanksha Hagawane[117]
2017	Hatvalne Swarali[118]	Anupam M Sreekumar[119]	Savitha Shri Baskar[120]	Jyothsna L[121]	Divya Deshmukh[122]	Priyanka K[123]
2018	Lakshana Subramanian[124]	Sneha Halder[125]	Savitha Shri Baskar[126]	Dhyana Patel[127]	Divya Deshmukh[128]	Priyanka K[129]
2019	Siddhi Rao[130]	Vidula Anbuselvan[131]	Anupam M Sreekumar[132]	Sarayu Velpula[133]	Divya Deshmukh[134]	Ghosh Samriddhaa[135]
2020	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Charvi A[136]	Charvi A[137]	Shubhi Gupta[138]	Mrittika Mallick[139]	Boramanikar Tanisha S[140]	Bhagyashree Patil[141]
2022	Sharvaanica A S[142]	Pratitee Bordoloi[143]	Prishita Gupta[144]	Sneha Halder[145]	Tejaswini G[146]	Bhagyashree Patil[147]
2023	Narayani Umesh Marathe[148]	Samhita Pungavanam[149]	Pratitee Bordoloi[150]	Shreya G Hipparagi[151]	Mrittika Mallick[152]	Mrittika Mallick[153]
2024	Aaranya R[154]	Kiyanna Parihaar[155]	Divi Bijesh[156]	Saranya Devi Narahari[157]	Prishita Gupta[158]	Tejaswini G[159]
2025	Shreyanshi Jain[160]	Girisha Prasanna Pai[161]	Krisha Tamhant Jain[162]	Modipalli Deekshitha[163]	Arshiya Das[164]

• North American Youth Chess Championship
• African Junior Chess Championship
• Asian Junior Chess Championship
• European Junior Chess Championship
• European Youth Chess Championship
• Pan American Junior Chess Championship
• World Youth Chess Championship