World Junior Championship 2025

AICF Admin 4 weeks ago

Report on the 2nd Round Performance of Indian Players in the FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2025

Open Category

In the Open category, Indian players had a mixed day with GM Pranav winning against Falkevall, Axel,2401 and IM Illamparthi A.R putting it across against Belkaid Sohan,(2370).The major setback for the Indian contingent was the loss of GM against Akhilbay Imangali,(2342).In another major upset was the loss of the top seed GM Daniel Dardha against Gong,Sunle.

Girls’ Category

The Girls’ category

WGM Savitha,Shri and Velpula Saraya maintained their winning streak by scoring their second victory.However WGM Rakshita Ravi was held to a draw by WFM Yakimova Mariyam (2201).Sneha Halder and Mrittika Mallick did well to draw against their higher rated opponents.

The results of the Indian players in the Open Category

GM	Pranav, V	2615	1	1 -0	1	FM	Falkevall, Axel	2401
IM	Ilamparthi, A R	2505	1	1 – 0	1	FM	Belkaid, Sohan	2370
IM	Razafindratsima, Timothe	2472	1	½ – ½	1	IM	Manish, Anto Cristiano F	2355
GM	Prraneeth, Vuppala	2442	1	0 – 1	1	FM	Akhilbay, Imangali	2342
FM	Nagarkatte, Vedant	2277	½	½ – ½	½	GM	Petkov, Momchil	2547
GM	Amar, Elham	2537	½	1 – 0	½	FM	Jaiveer, Mahendru	2251
IM	Rohith, Krishna S	2481	½	0 – 1	½		Hou, Yifan B	2199
IM	Aswath, S	2470	½	0 – 1	½	FM	Baranciuc, Alexandr	2246
IM	Tsvetkov, Andrey	2422	½	1 – 0	½	AIM	Vihaan, Dumir	2014
IM	Srihari, L R	2498	0	1 – 0	0		Milovic, Ilija	2029
	Kaloki, Hawi	1990	0	½ – ½	0	FM	Adireddy, Arjun	2315
FM	Sourath, Biswas	2207	0	1 – 0	0		Racic, Andrej	1691

The results of the Indian players in the girl’s category.

WGM	Rakshitta, Ravi	2365	1	½ – ½	1	WFM	Yakimova, Mariya	2201
	Abdinova, Narmin	2186	1	0 – 1	1	WGM	Savitha, Shri B	2332
	Velpula, Sarayu	2315	1	1 – 0	1	CM	Smietanska, Wiktoria	2170
WFM	Sneha, Halder	2065	1	½ – ½	1	FM	Zhapova, Yana	2234
	Mrittika, Mallick	2058	½	½ – ½	½	WFM	Karacsonyi, Kata	2191