FIDE Grand Swiss Round 4 LIVE Updates: Gukesh faces Arjun Erigaisi test, Pragg meets Abhimanyu after Gelfand win

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FIDE Grand Swss 2025 Round 4: Follow the latest updates from Samarkand today.

FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 Chess Round 4 LIVE Updates: Gukesh Dommaraju and Arjun Erigaisi, two of the strongest Indian grandmasters, are facing off in round 4 of the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament on Sunday. Both players have broken into the elusive 2800-ratings club with Gukesh becoming the youngest world champion in chess history.

The third member of India’s golden generation of chess prodigies, Praggnanandhaa, will also take on an Indian-origin American prodigy Abhimanyu Mishra after taking down chess legend Boris Gelfand in the previous round on Saturday. Abhimanyu Mishra is the world’s youngest grandmaster in chess history.

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In the interactive embeds below, you can follow all the top games involving Indian players from Grand Swiss today. You can also scroll past the interactives and read our live commentary and analysis of the games

INTERACTIVE: Gukesh Dommaraju vs Arjun Erigaisi

INTERACTIVE: Praggnanandhaa R vs Abhimanyu Mishra

INTERACTIVE: Vidit Santosh Gujrathi vs Vasyl Ivanchuk

INTERACTIVE: Divya Deshmukh vs Amin Bassem

INTERACTIVE: Vaishali Rameshbabu vs Dinara Wagner

INTERACTIVE: Vantika Agrawal vs Alexandra Kosteniuk

How Boris Gelfand lost to Praggnanandhaa in one single blunder

After playing his 60th move with just one second left, Boris Gelfand calmly got up and walked away from the chessboard, leaving his young opponent R Praggnanandhaa to consider his next move in their third-round clash at the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament. Gelfand was relieved; he had just unlocked an additional 15 minutes on his clock by reaching the 60-move mark and had successfully matched his opponent for nearly six hours. But when he returned a few minutes later and saw Pragg’s response, his relief vanished, and he slumped into his chair as if he'd been hit with a knockout blow. Read Amit Kamath's piece on how Gelfand's blunder became Pragg's gain

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