FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, Spherical 2 Sport 1 Outcomes and Standings Reside Updates: The second spherical of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 commences on Tuesday on the Resort Rio Conference Centre in Goa, with 17 Indian gamers nonetheless in competition. The highest fifty-seeded gamers, together with eight Indians, acquired byes within the opening spherical. The second spherical additionally sees the return of the highest seed and present World Champion, D. Gukesh, India No. 1 Arjun Erigaisi and third seed R. Praggnanandhaa.
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A complete of 24 Indians have been a part of the 206-player subject. With the highest 50 seeds given byes, 16 Indians have been in motion in the course of the opening spherical. After seven have been eradicated, 17 stay within the title race. The opening spherical noticed the exit of reigning Ladies’s World Cup champion Divya Deshmukh, the one feminine wildcard within the occasion. After the 2 classical video games, 5 Indians — Divya, Neelash Saha, Luke Leon Mendonca, Himal Gusain and Harshavardhan GB — made an early exit.
Two extra Indian contenders — Lalit Babu MR and Raja Rithvik R — have been eradicated within the tiebreaks, bringing the whole eliminations to seven. Conversely, seven Indians, together with the likes of Pranav V, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Pranesh M, straight certified for Spherical 2 by successful their matches within the classical video games while not having tiebreaks.
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INTERACTIVE: D Gukesh vs Kazybek Nogerbek (KAZ)
INTERACTIVE: Arjun Erigaisi vs Martin Petrov (BUL)
INTERACTIVE: R Praggnanandhaa vs Temur Kuybokarov (AUS)
INTERACTIVE: Nihal Sarin vs Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (GRE)
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IM Aronyak Ghosh outlasts Polish GM over six-game marathon; 17 Indians in Spherical 2
Aronyak Ghosh superior to Spherical 2 after successful the tiebreak in opposition to Polish GM Mateusz Barte. (FIDE/Eteri Kublashvili)
Worldwide grasp Aronyak Ghosh defeated Mateusz Bartel in a six-game marathon on Monday to be one in every of 17 Indians within the second spherical of the FIDE World Cup.
The competition included two classical video games, two with quarter-hour on the clock and two extra video games with 10 minutes. The Indian IM’s victory over Bartel units up a conflict with Levon Aronian. The opposite vital results of the day was IM Faustino Oro defeating Croatian grandmaster Ante Brkic in a battle lasting eight video games. Oro will now play India’s Vidit Gujrathi within the second spherical.
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