World Junior Chess Championship
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The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on the 1st of January in the year of competition).
Four winners, Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Viswanathan Anand, have gone on to win the FIDE World Chess Championship.
In 1986, a separate tournament for girls was established.
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Boys winner list
- 2005 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)
- 2004 Pentala Harikrishna (India)
- 2003 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)
- 2002 Levon Aronian (Armenia)
- 2001 Peter Acs (Hungary)
- 2000 Lázaro Bruzón (Cuba)
- 1999 Alexander Galkin (Russia)
- 1998 Darmen Sadvakasov (Kazakstan)
- 1997 Tal Shaked (USA)
- 1996 Emil Sutovsky (Israel)
- 1995 Roman Slobodjan (Germany)
- 1994 Helgi Gretarsson (Iceland)
- 1993 Igor Miladinovic (Yugoslavia)
- 1992 Pablo Zarnicki (Argentina)
- 1991 Vladimir Akopian (Armenia)
- 1990 Ilya Gurevich (USA)
- 1989 Vasil Spasov (Bulgaria)
- 1988 Joel Lautier (France)
- 1987 Viswanathan Anand (India)
- 1986 Walter Arencibia (Cuba)
- 1985 Maxim Dlugy (USA)
- 1984 Curt Hansen (Denmark)
- 1983 Kiril Georgiev (Bulgaria)
- 1982 Andrei Sokolov (USSR)
- 1981 Ognjen Cvitan (Yugoslavia)
- 1980 Garry Kasparov (USSR)
- 1979 Yasser Seirawan (USA)
- 1978 Sergey Dolmatov (USSR)
- 1977 Artur Yusupov (USSR)
- 1976 Mark Diesen (USA)
- 1975 Valery Chekhov (USSR)
- 1974 Anthony Miles (England)
- 1973 Alexander Beljavsky (USSR)
- 1971 Werner Hug (Switzerland)
- 1969 Anatoly Karpov (USSR)
- 1967 Julio Kaplan (Puerto Rico)
- 1965 Bojan Kurajica (Yugoslavia)
- 1963 Florin Gheorghiu (Romania)
- 1961 Bruno Parma (Yugoslavia)
- 1959 Carlos Bielicki (Argentina)
- 1957 William Lombardy (USA)
- 1955 Boris Spassky (USSR)
- 1953 Oscar Panno (Argentina)
- 1951 Borislav Ivkov (Yugoslavia)
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Girls winner list
- 2005 Elisabeth Pähtz (Germany)
- 2004 Ekaterina Korbut (Russia)
- 2003 Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia)
- 2002 Zhao Xue (China)
- 2001 Humpy Koneru (India)
- 2000 Xu Yuanyuan (China)
- 1999 Maria Kouvatsou (Greece)
- 1998 Hoang Thang Trang (Vietnam)
- 1997 Harriet Hunt (England)
- 1996 Zhu Chen (China)
- 1995 Nino Khurtsidze (Georgia)
- 1994 Zhu Chen (China)
- 1993 Nino Khurtsidze (Georgia)
- 1992 Krystina Dabrowska (Poland)
- 1991 Natasa Bojkovic (Yugoslavia)
- 1990 Ketevan Kakhiani (USSR)
- 1989 Ketevan Kakhiani (USSR)
- 1988 Alisa Galliamova (USSR)
- 1986 Ketevan Arakhamia (USSR)
