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FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 LIVE Updates: Follow Indians in action in Goa. (PHOTO: FIDE/Michal Walusza)
2025 FIDE Chess World Cup, Round 3 Game 1 Results and Standings LIVE Updates: What started with 206 players around the world, including 24 Indians, is now left with 64 players, including 10 Indians, at the ongoing FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 happening in Arpora, a small Northern Goa town.
D. Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Diptayan Ghosh, and Karthik Venkataraman directly qualified for the third round after scoring 1.5-0.5 in their two classical matches in the previous round, whereas the likes of R. Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, Pranav V, Pranesh M and SL Narayanan had to fight their way through the tiebreaks.
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The top three finishers in this event will get spots for Candidates 2026, a challenger tournament where the winner of the event gets to challenge the reigning World Champion.
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At the Chess World Cup, a question for Grandmasters: What after work? Their reply: Take a walk
Having won their second round games on Wednesday, Levon Aronian, sporting chess shorts, and Maxime Vachier Lagrave set off for a walk on Thursday afternoon in 29-degree heat while many of the others fight it out in tiebreaks at the FIDE World Cup in Resort Rio in Goa. (Express Photo by Amit Kamath)
As the sun sets on the Goan village of Arpora and another day at the FIDE World Cup ends, the road to Resort Rio, the venue where most of the players are also staying, gets busy. Not with vehicles, but Grandmasters. They set off in little groups, many wearing shorts and tracksuits that are a far cry from their usual attire of custom-fitted suits.
Where are they headed? Well, wherever their feet take them.
For a sport that demands hours of being seated at one place, walking has spawned its own folklore in chess. Some Grandmasters talk about five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand once ending up in another village while he went for a walk. It’s a fable that makes even Anand chuckle while dismissing it. He did add though that whenever he played the Tata Steel Chess event in the Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee, he always walked on the rest days to the neighbouring town of Beverwijk.
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