FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, Round 3 Tiebreaks Results and Standings: Vidit Gujrathi and SL Narayanan were eliminated from the third round of the FIDE World Cup on Sunday in tiebreaks after losing to Sam Shankland and Yu Yangyi respectively. Meanwhile, Karthik Venkataraman defeated Bogdan-Daniel Deac in the tiebreaks to become the fifth Indian in the fourth round.
Arjun Erigaisi, R. Praggnanandhaa, Pentala Harikrishna and Pranav V scored the required 1.5 points from the two classical rounds and thus qualified for the fourth round without needing to fight in tiebreaks.
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INTERACTIVE: Vidit Gujrathi vs Sam Shankland, tiebreak game 1
INTERACTIVE: Vidit Gujrathi vs Sam Shankland, tiebreak game 2
INTERACTIVE: Vidit Gujrathi vs Sam Shankland, tiebreak game 3
INTERACTIVE: How Karthik Venkataraman beat Bogdan-Daniel Deac in tiebreak game 2 with black
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The biggest upset of the round came in the form of top seed and reigning World Champion, D. Gukesh, who crashed out of the event after Germany’s Frederik Svane stunned him in the second Classical round with black pieces.Diptayan Ghosh and Pranesh M also lost their third-round matches and were eliminated from the title race.
Earlier, an unprecedented 24 Indians qualified for the 206-player biennial event. The top three finishers will get themselves a spot in the Candidates 2026, a challenger tournament where the winner of the event gets to challenge the reigning World Champion.
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Gukesh’s ‘year of transition’ suffers another setback as world champion is knocked out of Chess World Cup in Round 3
The Gukesh camp is looking at the year as a “transitional year” as he seeks new goals after achieving his childhood dream of becoming world champion at the age of 18. (Photo Credit: Eteri Kublashvili/FIDE)
An eight-man security cordon surrounds world champion D Gukesh as he walks out of the playing hall at Goa’s Resort Rio on Saturday evening. Usually, it’s the job of these burly men with neon vests bearing the word ‘security’ to escort the 19-year-old past the hundred-odd fans to his hotel lift. Today, they needn’t have bothered. After being eliminated from the FIDE World Cup with a 55-move defeat to Frederik Svane, the teenager had a large ‘do not disturb’ written across his face that would have stopped even the most adventurous selfie seeker dead in their tracks. The Chennai teen powerwalked past fans in under a minute, a remarkable pace considering it usually takes him at least 10 minutes to navigate the horde of admirers who line up outside the playing hall with screams of ‘Gukesh sir’.
