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Lübeck (dpa / lno) - Frederik Svane from Lübeck has won the youth world championship in chess for the age group up to 16 years.
Vincent Keymer, of the same age, was eliminated in the quarterfinals.
The also 16-year-old Indian Nihal Sarin, who has been a professional for five years, entered one age group higher and became U18 world champion.
Frederik Svane made a name for himself for the first time when he was the youngest German to achieve a world ranking number - for a six year old he achieved an outstanding 1699 Elo points.
He is the younger brother of national player Rasmus Svane.
The youth world championships took place online for the first time due to the corona pandemic. The game was not played with the classic thinking time, but each player started with 15 minutes and got ten seconds per move. To prevent tampering, all participants had to point two cameras at themselves and share their screen.