WORLD JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

The 'World Junior Chess Championship' is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).
The tournament was inaugurated in 1951 in England, and was held every two years until 1973 when an annual schedule was adopted.
In 1986, a separate tournament for girls was established.
Each FIDE member nation may select one entrant except for the host nation, which may select two. Some players are seeded into the tournament based on Elo rating and top finishes in previous championships. The first championship was an 11-round Swiss system tournament. In subsequent championships the entrants were divided into sections, and preliminary sectional tournaments were used to establish graded finals sections (Final A, Final B, etc.). Since 1975 the tournaments have returned to the Swiss format.
Originally the winner was awarded the title International Master if he had not already received it.
Currently the winner receives the Grandmaster or Woman Grandmaster title, and the second and third place finishers receive the International Master or Woman International Master titles .
Four winners, three Russian and one Indian, namely Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Viswanathan Anand, have gone on to win the FIDE World Chess Championship.

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World U-20 Championship

World Girls U-20 Championship

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World U-20 Championship

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No.	Year	Location	Champion	Country
1	1951	Coventry / Birmingham	Borislav Ivkov
2	1953	Copenhagen	Oscar Panno
3	1955	Antwerp	Boris Spassky
4	1957	Toronto	William Lombardy
5	1959	Munchenstein	Carlos Bielicki
6	1961	The Hague	Bruno Parma
7	1963	Vrnjacka Banja	Florin Gheorghiu
8	1965	Barcelona	Bojan Kurajica
9	1967	Jerusalem	Julio Kaplan
10	1969	Stockholm	Anatoly Karpov
11	1971	Athens	Werner Hug
12	1973	Teeside	Alexander Beliavsky
13	1974	Manila	Anthony Miles
14	1975	Tjentiste	Valery Chekhov
15	1976	Groningen	Mark Diesen
16	1977	Innsbruck	Artur Yusupov
17	1978	Graz	Sergey Dolmatov
18	1979	Skien	Yasser Seirawan
19	1980	Dortmund	Garry Kasparov
20	1981	Mexico City	Ognjen Cvitan
21	1982	Copenhagen	Andrei Sokolov
22	1983	Belfort	Kiril Georgiev
23	1984	Kiljava	Curt Hansen
24	1985	Sharjah	Maxim Dlugy
25	1986	Causdal	Walter Arencibia
26	1987	Baguio	Viswanathan Anand
27	1988	Adelaide	Joel Lautier
28	1989	Tunja	Vasil Spasov
29	1990	Santiago	Ilya Gurevich
30	1991	Mamaja	Vladimir Akopian
31	1992	Buenos Aires	Pablo Zarnicki
32	1993	Kozhikode	Igor Miladinovic	YUG
33	1994	Caiobá	Helgi Grétarsson
34	1995	Halle	Roman Slobodjan
35	1996	Medellín	Emil Sutovsky
36	1997	Żagań	Tal Shaked
37	1998	Kozhikode	Darmen Sadvakasov
38	1999	Yerevan	Alexander Galkin
39	2000	Yerevan	Lázaro Bruzón
40	2001	Athens	Peter Acs
41	2002	Goa	Levon Aronian
42	2003	Nakhchivan	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
43	2004	Kochi	Pentala Harikrishna
44	2005	Istanbul	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
45	2006	Yerevan	Zaven Andriasian

World Girls U-20 Championship

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No.	Year	Location	Champion	Country
1	1986	Causdal	Ketevan Arakhamia	USSR
2	1988	Adelaide	Alisa Galliamova	USSR
3	1989	Tunja	Ketevan Kakhiani	USSR
4	1990	Santiago	Ketevan Kakhiani	USSR
5	1991	Mamaja	Natasa Bojkovic
6	1992	Buenos Aires	Krystina Dabrowska
7	1993	Kozhikode	Nino Khurtsidze
8	1994	Caiobá	Zhu Chen	PRC
9	1995	Halle	Nino Khurtsidze
10	1996	Medellín	Zhu Chen	PRC
11	1997	Żagań	Harriet Hunt
12	1998	Kozhikode	Hoang Thang Trang
13	1999	Yerevan	Maria Kouvatsou
14	2000	Yerevan	Xu Yuanyuan	PRC
15	2001	Athens	Humpy Koneru
16	2002	Goa	Zhao Xue	PRC
17	2003	Nakhchivan	Nana Dzagnidze
18	2004	Kochi	Ekaterina Korbut
19	2005	Istanbul	Elisabeth Pähtz
20	2006	Yerevan	Yang Shen	PRC

References

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External links

★ Chessbase.com News: results through 2004