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Chess · INDIA

Vaka Lakshmi Pragnika

World school U7 champion

Girls Under-7 competition; age 7 separately reported on 26 December 2025

Gujarat · December 2025 award context, not current residence · India

Girls Under-7 podium; the centre certificate names Pragnika Vaka Lakshmi in first place
Girls Under-7 podium; the centre certificate names Pragnika Vaka Lakshmi in first place
Image source ↗ · Andrej Jovanovic / Chess Federation of Serbia, via FIDE
Source photograph · credit and provenance below

BEHIND THE RESULT

The achievement

FIDE’s published results for the 2025 World School Championship place Pragnika Vaka Lakshmi of India first in the Girls Under-7 section, with nine points. The championship took place in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. The next two finishers in the published table scored seven points each.

Read the result carefully

Under-7 is the name of the competition section; it should not be treated as proof of her precise age on every tournament day. Our separate award record reports age seven in December 2025. Likewise, Gujarat is a location reported in that later award context, not evidence of her current home. The podium photograph’s certificate identifies her first-place result.

A spark to explore

Chess gives a reader a way to explore decisions rather than only admire a trophy. Choose a position and ask: what is threatened, what can be protected and what changes after this move? These are our reader prompts, not claims about Pragnika’s personal coaching or practice routine.

Source-based story · the activities are prompts for readers.

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The achievement, in context.

Sources you can explore.

FIDE · 29 March 2025 ↗International federation results

PIB official award dossier · 26 December 2025 (pages4–5) ↗Government award list; age and Gujarat award context, not current residence

Original source ↗

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