FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, Round 5 Game 1 Results and Standings Live Updates: Arjun Erigaisi and Pentala Harikrishna remain the only two Indians in the ongoing FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, taking place in Arpora, Goa and will be in action in Game 1 of Round 5 at the Resort Rio Convention Centre on Friday.
Arjun will face two-time World Cup winner Levon Aronian, while Harikrishna will lock horns with the in-form Mexican Grandmaster, José Eduardo Martínez Alcántara.
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2023 World Cup finalist R. Praggnanandhaa was knocked out in Round 4 tiebreaks by former World Rapid Champion, Russian Daniil Dubov. Praggnanandhaa played a quick draw in the first 15+10-minute rapid tiebreaks before losing the second game with white pieces to become the 22nd Indian to be eliminated from the home event.
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24 Indians featured in the prestigious biennial event; seven were knocked out after the first round, and seven more were eliminated in the second round. The third round saw the elimination of five Indians, which included the top seed and reigning World Champion, D. Gukesh, leaving the number of Indian participants to just five. In the fourth round, Karthik Venkataraman, Pranav V and Praggnanandhaa crashed out.
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INTERACTIVE: Arjun Erigaisi vs Levon Aronian (USA)
INTERACTIVE: P. Harikrishna vs Jose Martinez (MEX)
FIDE World Cup: Old warhorse Pentala Harikrishna still going strong, one of two surviving Indians
India’s Pentala Harikrishna walks during his fourth round game at the FIDE World Cup in Goa. (PHOTO: Michal Walusza)
In 2002, Viswanathan Anand won his second Chess World Cup title in Hyderabad. The tournament was equally significant for another Indian, Pentala Harikrishna, who at the age of 16, had already become a Grandmaster and was making his World Cup debut on home turf.
It has been 23 years since, but Harikrishna is still going strong and remains one of the two Indians – the other being Arjun Erigaisi – to remain in contention in the 2025 edition after defeating Sweden’s Nils Grandelius in the fourth round.