FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 Chess Event Spherical 3 LIVE Updates: World champion Gukesh Dommaraju is taking up Daniil Yuffa within the third spherical of the FIDE Grand Swiss event whereas Praggnanandhaa is dueling chess legend Boris Gelfand right now. Vaishali R, in the meantime, has began off her defence of the Ladies’s Grand Swiss title with a bang, profitable each her video games thus far.
The Indian quartet of Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi are among the many seven Indians who’re simply half some extent behind the event leaders heading into spherical 3.
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Arjun Erigaisi (1½) vs Anton Demchenko (2) | Boris Gelfand (1½) vs Praggnanandhaa R (1½) | Daniil Yuffa (1½) vs Gukesh D (1½) | Nodirbek Abdusattorov (1½) vs Abhimanyu Puranik (1½) | Leon Luke Mendonca (1½) vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (1½) | Vidit Santosh Gujrathi (1½) vs Alexandr Predke (1½) | Nihal Sarin (1½) vs Yuriy Kuzubov (1½) | Aryan Chopra (1) vs Amin Tabatabaei (1) | Raunak Sadhwani (1) vs Andy Woodward (1) | Nils Grandelius (1) vs Aditya Mittal (1) | Dmitrij Kollars (1) vs Pranav V (1) | SL Narayanan (1) vs Nikolas Theodorou (1) | Jakhongir Vakhidov (1) vs Harikrishna Pentala (½) | Divya Deshmukh (½) vs Murali Karthikeyan (0)
Ladies’s part spherical 3 pairings at Grand Swiss
Vaishali Rameshbabu (2) vs Olga Badelka (2) | Music Yuxin (1½) vs Vantika Agrawal (1½) | Qi Guo (1) vs Harika Dronavalli (1)
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Turkey’s 14-year-old holds Gukesh to Rd 2 draw
Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, a 14-year-old prodigy from Turkey, will tackle world champion Gukesh right now at FIDE Grand Swiss. (PHOTO: FIDE/Michal Walusza)
Reigning world champion Gukesh D confronted a outstanding younger expertise within the second spherical of the FIDE Grand Swiss event in 14-year-old Turkish grandmaster Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus. When Gukesh, who himself grew to become a world champion at 18, sat throughout from his opponent in Samarkand, it was like taking a look at a youthful reflection of his personal prodigious journey.
The match on Friday was a testomony to Erdogmus’s ability. He managed to carry Gukesh to a 46-move draw with the black items, a feat that drew important reward. Gukesh utilized immense stress all through the center sport, however the younger Turkish participant showcased unimaginable resilience and resourcefulness, discovering a solution to safe the draw. READ MORE