Pranav Venkatesh Golden at World Junior 2025
GM Pranav Venkatesh drew with FM Matic Lavrencic (SLO) to clinch the Gold at World Junior Open 2025. He scored an unbeaten 9/11 with a performance of 2721, gaining 13.3 Elo rating points in the process. His final round opponent, Matic secured Silver scoring 8.5/11. GM Elham Amar (NOR) got Bronze scoring 8.5/11. WIM Anna Shukhman won Gold in the Girls event. She scored 9/11. WIM Ayan Allahverdiyeva (AZE) and IM Miaoyi Lu (CHN) scored 8/11 each to secure Silver and Bronze respectively. The total prize fund of the tournament was €10000. The top three prizes in Open were €3000, €2000 and €1000 along with a medal and trophy each. For Girls, they were, €2000, €1250 and €750 with a medal a trophy each. Photo: Mitar Djukanovic
Pranav's first Classical World title
A few months ago in December 2024, GM Pranav Venkatesh clinched double Gold at World Youth Under-18 Open Rapid and Blitz in Slovenia. In less than three months time, he won World Junior 2025 Open in Classical format. Pranav definitely is establishing himself as a well-rounded player. This win is highly likely to earn him a spot at the upcoming World Cup, if we go by the regulations in the recent past editions. Not only that, he might also get to debut at Tata Steel Challengers next year as previous champions - GM Kazybek Nogerbek (KAZ) and IM Divya Deshmukh got the opportunities. One thing is sure, Pranav is getting started and he is only going to win a lot more.
Pranav drew his final round game in 18 moves against FM Matic Lavrencic (SLO) as it was enough for him to secure Gold.
Pranav's tweet on his triumph
Vishy Anand congratulated his WACA mentee
A total of 156 players including 12 GMs and 37 IMs took part from 57 countries, 98 including 2 IMs, 7 WGMs and 13 WIMs took part from 48 countries across the world. The eleven-day eleven round Under-20 Rating tournament was organized by Chess Federation of Montenegro and FIDE at Hotel “Palas” in Petrovac, Montenegro from 25th February to 7th March 2025. The time control of the event was 40 moves in 90 minutes + 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.
Replay Round 11 Open games
Replay Round 11 Girls games
Round 11 Open results
| Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
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| 11 | 1 | 2 | GM | Pranav V | 2615 | 8½ | ½ - ½ | 8 | FM | Lavrencic Matic | 2446 | 29 | ||
| 11 | 10 | 46 | IM | Begmuratov Khumoyun | 2409 | 6½ | ½ - ½ | 6½ | IM | Aswath S | 2470 | 22 | ||
| 11 | 14 | 76 | Nainys Zanas | 2332 | 6½ | 0 - 1 | 6½ | GM | Prraneeth Vuppala | 2442 | 30 | |||
| 11 | 15 | 40 | IM | Chasin Nico | 2415 | 6 | 1 - 0 | 6 | IM | Srihari L R | 2498 | 12 | ||
| 11 | 16 | 18 | IM | Rohith Krishna S | 2481 | 6 | 1 - 0 | 6 | FM | Yaniv Yuval | 2415 | 41 | ||
| 11 | 20 | 23 | IM | Mitusov Semen | 2469 | 6 | 1 - 0 | 6 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | 2355 | 65 | ||
| 11 | 41 | 95 | FM | Jaiveer Mahendru | 2251 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | FM | Cordoba Roa Angel Gabriel | 2358 | 64 | ||
| 11 | 44 | 81 | FM | Adireddy Arjun | 2315 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | CM | Nissinen Niilo Man | 2106 | 111 | ||
| 11 | 46 | 99 | CM | Prisacaru Stefan-Emilian | 2212 | 5 | ½ - ½ | 5 | FM | Nagarkatte Vedant | 2277 | 86 | ||
| 11 | 49 | 85 | FM | Assylov Miras | 2285 | 4½ | ½ - ½ | 4½ | FM | Sourath Biswas | 2207 | 100 | ||
| 11 | 55 | 102 | Szakmary Domonkos | 2199 | 4 | 0 - 1 | 4 | AIM | Vihaan Dumir | 2014 | 125 | |||
| 11 | 78 | 8 | IM | Ilamparthi A R | 2505 | 4½ | 0 | not paired |
Final standings
| Rk. | SNo | Name | Typ | sex | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | TB5 | n | w | we | w-we | K | rtg+/- | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | GM | Pranav, V | U20 | IND | 2615 | 9 | 0 | 71 | 76,5 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 7,67 | 1,33 | 10 | 13,3 | ||
| 2 | 29 | FM | Lavrencic, Matic | U20 | SLO | 2446 | 8,5 | 0 | 68,5 | 73 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 8,5 | 6,66 | 1,84 | 10 | 18,4 | ||
| 3 | 6 | GM | Amar, Elham | U20 | NOR | 2537 | 8,5 | 0 | 66 | 71 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 8,5 | 7,69 | 0,81 | 10 | 8,1 |
Round 11 Girls results
| Rd. | Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||||
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| 11 | 10 | 29 | WFM | Peglau Charis | 2203 | 6 | 1 - 0 | 6 | WGM | Rakshitta Ravi | 2365 | 4 | ||
| 11 | 11 | 9 | WGM | Savitha Shri B | 2332 | 6 | 1 - 0 | 6 | FM | Zhapova Yana | 2234 | 23 | ||
| 11 | 22 | 79 | Nguyen Binh Vy | 1926 | 5½ | 0 - 1 | 5 | Velpula Sarayu | 2315 | 10 | ||||
| 11 | 23 | 19 | WGM | Kurmangaliyeva Liya | 2251 | 5 | 1 - 0 | 5 | Mrittika Mallick | 2058 | 52 | |||
| 11 | 32 | 63 | Li Anna Sofie | 2016 | 4½ | 0 - 1 | 4½ | WFM | Sneha Halder | 2065 | 50 |
Final standings
| Rk. | SNo | Name | Typ | sex | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | TB5 | n | w | we | w-we | K | rtg+/- | ||
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| 1 | 5 | WIM | Shukhman, Anna | U20 | w | FID | 2365 | 9 | 0 | 66 | 70 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 7,50 | 1,50 | 20 | 30 | |
| 2 | 14 | WIM | Allahverdiyeva, Ayan | U20 | w | AZE | 2284 | 8 | 1 | 73 | 77,5 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 5,48 | 2,52 | 20 | 50,4 | |
| 3 | 1 | IM | Lu, Miaoyi | U20 | w | CHN | 2432 | 8 | 2 | 66 | 69 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 8,63 | -0,63 | 10 | -6,3 |
Links
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World Junior R9-10: Pranav eyes the Gold
@ 07/03/2025 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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World Junior R7-8: Pranav maintains his sole lead, Aswath makes a strong comeback
@ 05/03/2025 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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World Junior R5-6: Pranav Venkatesh gains sole lead
@ 03/03/2025 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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World Junior R3-4: Pranav and Sarayu in the lead
@ 01/03/2025 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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World Junior R1-2: Sneha Halder stuns Miaoyi Lu
@ 27/02/2025 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |