FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 1 Game 2 Results and Standings Highlights: 16 Indians are in action in Game 2 of the opening round of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 which is underway at the Resort Rio in North Goa.
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The showpiece event that has returned to Indian soil after 23 years will feature 206 top players from around the world competing against one another, and the tournament will conclude on November 27. An unprecedented 24 Indians will take part in this prestigious biennial event. The top 50 seeded players, which includes eight Indians, have received byes for the opening round.
You can check out the move-by-move action from Chess World Cup and also play along in the interactive below. For all our live updates straight from Amit Kamath from Arpora, Goa, in real time, scroll down.
INTERACTIVE: Pranav V (IND) vs Ala Eddine Boulrens (ALG)
INTERACTIVE: Divya Deshmukh (IND) vs Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis (GRE)
INTERACTIVE: Raunak Sadhwani (IND) vs Daniel Barrish (RSA)
INTERACTIVE: Surya Shekhar Ganguly (IND) vs Ahmad Ahmadzada (AZE)
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FIDE World Cup: Divya Deshmukh fighting for survival after loss in opening game; veteran Surya Shekhar Ganguly wins
The engine showed that Deshmukh’s troubles started once she opted for an exchange of pawns on the 17th move. (Express Photo by Amit Kamath)
Saturday saw a mixed day for India at the FIDE World Cup in Goa with junior world champion Pranav V and the 42-year-old veteran Surya Shekhar Ganguly among the winners for the hosts in their first games of the first round. Meanwhile, Divya Deshmukh, who is the only woman to be competing at the event, tasted an opening day defeat as did the troika of international masters Aronyak Ghosh, Himal Gusain and Neelash Saha.
