The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cadets Chess Championship" and "World Youth Chess Championship".
Anna Zatonskih is a Ukrainian American chess player who holds the titles International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a four-time U.S. women's champion, as well as a former Ukrainian women's champion.
Rusudan Goletiani is a Georgian-American chess player with the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She was three-time world girls' champion in her age category, the 2003 American continental women's champion and the 2005 U.S. women's championship.
Qin Kanying is a Chinese chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a former Women's World Chess Championship runner-up and five-time Chinese women's champion.
Constantin Lupulescu is a Romanian chess grandmaster and a five-time Romanian Chess Champion. He has competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2019, 2021.
Siranush Andriasian is an Armenian chess International Master. She is a three-time Armenian Women Chess Champion and has won a bronze medal at the European Team Chess Championship for Armenia.
Elena Sedina is a Ukrainian-Italian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She has won the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championship, the Australian Open Chess Championship, and is a Chess Olympiad and Mitropa Cup gold medalist.
Daniela Nuțu-Gajić is a Romanian Australian chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and chess trainer. She represented Romania in seven Chess Olympiads, winning five medals, including two individual gold medals. She won the Romanian Women's Chess Championship three times in 1978, 1979 and 1980, the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship in 1989, and the Australian Women's Chess Championship in 1995.
Cristina Adela Foișor was a Romanian chess player. She was awarded by FIDE the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1991 and International Master (IM) in 1997.
Mónica Calzetta Ruiz is a Spanish chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster.
Elena-Luminița Cosma is a Romanian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.
Jovana Rapport is a Serbian-Romanian chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), which FIDE awarded her in 2009. She is a two-time Montenegrin women's champion and also a Serbian women's champion (2014).
Marina Makropoulou is a Romanian and Greek chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. Her peak Elo rating is at 2330 in 1994. She is a Romanian Women's Chess Champion (1984) and nine time Greek Women's Chess Champion - which is the record for most Greek Women's Chess Championships. With her 2022 win, she tied Viktor Korchnoi's record for winning an Individual National Championship in 5 different decades.
Emil Ungureanu was Romanian chess International Master (1978), Romanian Chess Championships medalist.
Boris Chatalbashev is a Bulgarian and Danish chess Grandmaster (GM) (1997), four-times Bulgarian Chess Championship winner. He won the Danish championship in 2023.
Constantin Ionescu is a Romanian Grandmaster (GM) (1988), Romanian Chess Championship winner (1999), World Team Chess Championship individual bronze medalist (1985).
Gabriela Olărașu is a Romanian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She is six times Romanian Women Chess Champion.
Mihail-Viorel Ghindă was a Romanian chess player, International Master (IM) (1978), four-times Romanian Chess Championship winner.
Carmen Voicu-Jagodzinsky is a Romanian chess Woman Grandmaster who won the German Women's Chess Championship (2020).
Ovidiu-Doru Foișor is a Romanian chess player, International Master (IM) (1982), Romanian Chess Championship winner (1982).
