FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 4 Game 2 LIVE Updates: Follow Indians in action in Goa. (PHOTO: FIDE/Michal Walusza)FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, Round 4 Game 2 Results and Standings Live Updates: Five Indians continue to fight for their survival in the ongoing FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 happening in Arpora, Goa. After reaching the fourth round, Arjun Erigaisi, R. Praggnanandhaa, Harikrishna Pentala, Pranav V and Karthik Venkataraman will be in action in Game 2 of this round on Wednesday at Resort Rio Convention Centre.
A total of 24 Indians started at this biennial event, and over the course of three rounds, 19 of them have been eliminated. The first rounds saw seven Indians knocked out of the event; the second round had as many Indians crash out of the title race. The third round saw the fall of five Indians, including top seed D. Gukesh and former Candidates player Vidit Gujrathi.
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The top three finishers of World Cup 2025 will get themselves a ticket to Cyprus for 2026 Candidates Tournament where the winner of that event will get to challenge the reigning World Champion.
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After life-changing Goa trip in 2002, Levon Aronian is back for a good time, but wins keep on coming
Unlike other grandmasters, Levon Aronian has been making the most of his time in Goa visiting the beach and local restaurants with friends and family.<br />(Instagram: Levon Aronian)
As the FIDE World Cup has lurched towards its middlegame, the creases on grandmasters’ foreheads have gotten deeper. Stress levels have shot up through the roof like an eval bar after a blunder. Everyone has been speaking about the nerves they’re experiencing at the World Cup. It’s why the World Cup has been an unprecedented carnage of 2700-somethings being defeated by lower-rated opponents.
Levon Aronian is not one of them.
While many grandmasters spend hours in their hotel rooms hunkering behind lines and lines of prep, Aronian looks every bit like a man who’s in Goa for a vacation. And loving his time there. Since he arrived in Goa, one week before the tournament actually started, he’s explored as much of the state as he can, wandering off to beaches and posting selfies with the cows there or taking his wife and friends to an Armenian restaurant in Panaji.
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