FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, Round 2 Tiebreaks Results and Standings Live Updates: The fate of eight Indians will be decided in the tiebreaks for the second round of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, happening at the Resort Rio Convention Centre in Goa. Out of the 17 Indian players remaining before the second round, five — D. Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Diptayan Ghosh, and Karthik Venkataraman — have directly qualified for the third round after scoring 1.5-0.5 in their two classical matches.
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Aronyak Ghosh, P. Iniyan, Aravindh Chithambaram, and Surya Shekhar Ganguly were eliminated after losing their classical matches.
The eight Indians competing in the second-round tiebreaks are R. Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, Nihal Sarin, Pranav V, S.L. Narayanan, Karthikeyan Murali, Pranesh M, and Raunak Sadhwani.
Earlier, a total of 24 Indians were part of the 206-player field. With the top 50 seeds receiving byes, 16 Indians were in action during the opening round. After seven were eliminated, 17 remained in the title race.
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After elimination, Ian Nepomniachtchi grumbles about ‘conditions’, leaves official hotel in an hour
Nepo also did not speak to any of the journalists at the Resort Rio after his defeat. Or clarify what had irked him. (Picture Credit: Michal Walusza/FIDE)
He came, he saw, he was conquered. And he left India by raising a stink. But no one knows exactly what about. Ian Nepomniachtchi’s FIDE World Cup campaign was over in two short days, after a draw in the first game and defeat in the second game of the second round of the FIDE World Cup against Indian grandmaster Diptayan Ghosh.
Precisely one hour after his defeat to Ghosh, while many of the second round games were still going on in the playing hall at Resort Rio, Nepo was seen checking out and leaving the hotel, where he was staying. But not before he launched a vaguely-worded parting shot.
“I’d played in India before (in 2019 in Kolkata), so I had a good idea of what the conditions would be like. But FIDE, to its credit, managed to surprise me. There’s nothing to say about the chess aspect. One of those places that you won’t be sad to leave,” a disgruntled Nepomniachtchi posted on his Telegram account on Wednesday.
