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Four Indian players precocious to the 4th circular of the FIDE World Cup 2025 successful Panaji, portion World Champion Gukesh D faced elimination.World champion Gukesh D's tourney travel ended against Frederik Svane. After a gully with achromatic pieces successful the archetypal game, Gukesh's effort to triumph the 2nd crippled backfired erstwhile Svane overcame clip unit and forced Gukesh's resignation successful a knight-pawn ending.R Praggnanandhaa secured triumph against Armenia's GM Robert Hovhannisyan by capitalising connected a mid-game advantage. After drafting the archetypal crippled with achromatic pieces and surviving a challenging position, Praggnanandhaa executed a strategical plan, gaining power by determination 27 done queen and rook unit connected black's king. The Armenian subordinate resigned aft 42 moves.The tourney features 206 players from 82 countries competing for the Viswanathan Anand Cup successful a single-elimination knockout format. Ten Indian players qualified for the 3rd round.Harikrishna progressed to the adjacent circular archetypal among Indians aft a speedy gully against Belgium's GM Daniel Dardha, pursuing his triumph with achromatic pieces successful the archetypal game. GM Arjun Erigaisi and World Junior Champion GM Pranav V besides precocious aft securing draws with achromatic pieces.
Top-seeded overseas subordinate Anish Giri was eliminated aft losing to GM Alexander Donchenko successful 47 moves with achromatic pieces successful the 2nd game.Arjun's adjacent situation volition beryllium Hungarian GM Peter Leko, who achieved triumph successful some games against GM Kirill Alekseenko successful Round 3.GM Vidit Gujrathi, Karthik Venkataraman, and GM Narayanan S volition proceed to tiebreaks connected Sunday aft drafting some games successful their respective matches.
FIDE World Cup 2025: Indian Results (Round 3, Game 2)
- GM Gukesh D mislaid to GM Frederik Svane (GER) (0.5:1.5 aggregate)
- GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov (UZB) drew with GM Arjun Erigaisi (0.5:1.5 aggregate)
- GM R Praggnanandhaa vs GM Robert Hovhannisyan (ARM) (1.5:0.5 aggregate)
- GM Daniel Dardha (BEL) drew with GM P Harikrishna (0.5:1.5 aggregate)
- GM Titas Stremavicius (LTU) drew GM Pranav V (0.5:1.5 aggregate)
- GM Grabriel Sargissian (ARM) bt GM Diptayan Ghosh (1.5:0.5 aggregate)
- GM Yu Yangyi (CHN) drew with GM Narayanan S (0.5:0.5 aggregate)
- GM Vidit Gujrathi drew with GM Sam Shankland (USA) (0.5:0.5 aggregate)
- GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU) drew with GM Karthik Venkatraman (0.5:0.5 aggregate)
- GM Pranesh M mislaid to GM Vincent Keymer (GER) (0.5:1.5 aggregate)
