FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, Round 4 Game 1 Results and Standings LIVE Updates: After three brutal rounds, only five Indians from the 24 that entered the fray are left standing at the FIDE World Cup in Arpora, Goa. While some of India’s top stars like world champion D Gukesh, Divya Deshmukh, Nihal Sarin and Aravindh Chitambaram have been eliminated already, R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Karthik Venkatraman and Pranav V are still left standing.
Second seed GM Arjun Erigaisi is now the highest seed in fray and will be up against Hungarian veteran Peter Leko, who was once the youngest Grandmaster back in 1994.
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Among the other Indians, GM R Praggnanandhaa will meet GM Daniil Dubov, GM Karthik Venkataraman takes on Le Quang Leim of Vietnam, world junior champion Pranav V will have to overcome the challenge of GM Nodribek Yakubboev while GM P Harikrishna plays GM Nils Grandelius.
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FIDE World Cup: Sustained high pressure of winning everyday for a month, fewer rest days and fear of losing make chess World Cups a crucible
The unpredictable nature of the World Cup is why Karthik talks about being in “total fear”. (FIDE/Eteri Kublashvili)
As compared to other chess events, the World Cup sees players play each other in two one-on-one classical games, with the winner entering the next round. But if the two games do not provide a winner, the players return for another day to fight in two rapid games. These two-game battles continue until someone wins, with the time on the clock reducing after each two-game mini-match. Eventually, after 10 games are played over five different time controls, there is the Armageddon game, where the player with white has to win, while the player with black just needs a draw to progress.
The volatile nature of the knockout format of the FIDE World Cup means that one mistake could mean the end of your tournament.
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