Chess World Cup 2025, Round 3 Game 1 Highlights: Pranav V, Arjun Erigaisi & Harikrishna win; Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa & Vidit draw; Follow Live Boards
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 LIVE Updates | Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi Today Match Results Live Streaming Online: 10 Indians are in action in third round of Goa event on Friday.
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2025 FIDE Chess World Cup, Round 3 Game 1 Results and Standings Highlights: What started with 206 players around the world, including 24 Indians, is now left with 64 players, including 10 Indians, at the ongoing FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 happening in Arpora, a small Northern Goa town.
D. Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, Diptayan Ghosh, and Karthik Venkataraman directly qualified for the third round after scoring 1.5-0.5 in their two classical matches in the previous round, whereas the likes of R. Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, Pranav V, Pranesh M and SL Narayanan had to fight their way through the tiebreaks.
The top three finishers in this event will get spots for Candidates 2026, a challenger tournament where the winner of the event gets to challenge the reigning World Champion.
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: D Gukesh vs Frederik Svane (GER)
INTERACTIVE: Arjun Erigaisi vs Shamsiddin Vokhidov (UZB)
INTERACTIVE: R Praggnanandhaa vs Robert Hovhannisyan (ARM)
INTERACTIVE: Vidit Gujrathi vs Sam Shankland (USA)
INTERACTIVE: Pranav V vs Titas Stremavicius (LTU)
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Live Updates
FIDE World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 LIVE Updates: Catch all the live action from the Resort Rio in Goa on Friday
Nov 7, 2025 08:48 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Indian Results
GM D. Gukesh (2752) vs GM Frederik Svane (GER) 2638 - 0.5-0.5 - DRAW
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Latest Results
Nov 7, 2025 08:43 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Pranav beat Stremavicius
In the final active game of the round, Pranav manages to beat Titas Stremavicius in a 102-move game. Top win for Pranav. Third win for an Indian in Game 1 of Round 3. The remaining seven have ended their games in a draw.
Nov 7, 2025 08:40 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Pranesh keeps Keymer at bay
A fighting draw for Pranesh M who kept Vincent Keymer at bay. Draw in this board as well.
Nov 7, 2025 08:39 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Narayanan vs Yu Yangi ends in draw
SL Narayanan and Yu Yangi played a 117-move marathon game, only to end it in a hard-fought draw. Spoils have been shared.
Nov 7, 2025 08:15 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Three Indians in action
Pranesh M, Pranav V and SL Narayanan are still fighting for decisive results. A total of six games are yet to be completed and are still going on.
Nov 7, 2025 07:59 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Long grind for Pranav
The game between Pranav V and Titas Stremavicius turned many ways since the beginning of the game. Pranav has two extra pawns in the rook-knight vs rook-bishop endgame and he should be able to convert this position.
Nov 7, 2025 07:55 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Karthik drew with Deac
After fighting for nearly five hours, Karthik Venkataraman ended up drawing his Game 1 with Romanian GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac with white pieces.
Nov 7, 2025 06:49 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Alcantara upsets Abdusattorov
UPSET ALERT: Nodirbek Abdusattorov has been beaten by Mexican GM Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara in Game 1. Alcantara now needs just a draw, that too with white pieces, to secure a spot in Round 4.
Nov 7, 2025 06:33 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Gukesh draws vs Svane
The game between top seed India's D. Gukesh and Frederik Svane ended in a draw.
Nov 7, 2025 06:25 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Latest results
Nov 7, 2025 06:15 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: WATCH | How Arjun beat Vokhidov
Nov 7, 2025 06:13 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Diptayan low on clock
Troubling signs for Diptayan Ghosh, who upset two-time Candidates winner Ian Nepomniachtchi in the previous round, as he has a minute and 56 seconds left on the clock to make 14 more moves before reaching time control. In contrast, his opponent, Gabriel Sargissian, has nearly half an hour.
Nov 7, 2025 05:59 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Arjun beats Vokhidov
And here comes the confirmation. Arjun Erigaisi just annihilates Shamsiddin Vokhidov to go 1-0 up in the contest. He doesn't even break a sweat to beat the Uzbek here, top opening prep, top approach to get a decisive lead in the clash. He now just needs a draw with black tomorrow to qualify for Round 4.
Nov 7, 2025 05:47 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: WATCH | How Harikrishna beat Daniel Dardha
Nov 7, 2025 05:46 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Latest results
Nov 7, 2025 05:33 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Vidit vs Shankland draw
Vidit Gujrathi and Sam Shankland have also ended their game. It's a draw, points shared between them.
Nov 7, 2025 05:32 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Dominating win for Harikrishna
Big result for Harikrishna! It has only been 2 and a half hours and Harikrishna has already secured a victory over Belgian GM Daniel Dardha with white pieces. Dominating win for Hari!
Nov 7, 2025 05:26 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Praggnanandhaa draws
The first result of the round is in. Praggnanandhaa, who had beaten Temur Kuybokarov in tiebreaks on Thursday, plays it safe today and ends the game in a safe and sound draw.
Nov 7, 2025 05:25 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Pranav better vs Stremavicius
World Junior Champion, Pranav V chops off Lithuanian GM Titas Stremavicius' pawn at g7 and is two pawns up. Pranav has a promising position in a complex game; he should be converting this game.
Nov 7, 2025 05:14 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Winning position for Arjun
The position in Arjun Erigaisi vs Shamsiddin Vokhidov has finally blown and the Indian is already having a practically winning position after a streak of inaccurate moves from the Uzbek. This was coming for a long time. Arjun has just been brilliant in this game right from his first move.
LIVE POSITION
Nov 7, 2025 04:55 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Vidit behind on clock
Vidit Gujrathi is 20 minutes behind on the clock in comparison to his opponent, Sam Shankland. Interestingly, Vidit had beaten the youngest competitor in the history of the World Cup, Argentina's Faustino Oro, while Shankland defeated the oldest player in this event, Vasyl Ivanchuk.
Nov 7, 2025 04:49 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: First few moves in Pragg vs Hovhannisyan
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. d4 exd4
5. Nxd4 Bb4
6. Nxc6 bxc6
7. Bd3 d5
8. exd5 O-O
9. O-O cxd5
10. h3 c6
11. Qf3 Re8
12. Bf4 Nd7
13. Rae1 Nc5
14. Bc7 Nxd3
15. cxd3 Qd7
16. Rxe8+ Qxe8
17. Qf4 a5
18. a3 Bxc3
19. bxc3 Ba6
Nov 7, 2025 04:31 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Pragg better on clock
A 12-minute time edge for Praggnanandhaa as well. He has an hour and seven minutes while his opponent, Armenia's Robert Hovhannisyan has less than 55 minutes after the first 17 minutes.
Nov 7, 2025 04:29 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Opening moves in Arjun vs Vokhidov
1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 e6
3. Nf3 d5
4. Nc3 c5
5. cxd5 cxd4
6. Qa4+ Bd7
7. Qxd4 exd5
8. Nxd5 Qa5+
9. Nc3 Nc6
10. Qd1 Ne4
11. Bd2 Nxd2
12. Nxd2 Bb4
13. Rc1 Bxc3
14. Rxc3 Qxa2
15. Nc4 Be6
16. e4R d8
17. Nd6+ Kf8
18. Qd2 Qa4
19. f4 Qb4
Nov 7, 2025 04:25 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Serious opening prep from Arjun
This is tremendous stuff from Arjun Erigaisi as he is demonstrating some serious preparation in his game. It has been 19 moves, and he has blitzed out all of his moves, using just 2 minutes off his clock, whereas his opponent Shamsiddin Vokhidov has already utilised more than 50 % of his clock, and is just left with 45 minutes.
Nov 7, 2025 04:09 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Gukesh spends 20 minutes on 9th move
Gukesh is in deep thought for his ninth move after Svane played knight bd2. The clock, which read 1:18:32, ended up reading 58:26 as he used 20 minutes to retrieve his knight to f6
Nov 7, 2025 04:07 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Sicilian Defense vs Gukesh vs Svane
After e4 (from Svane) and c5 (from Gukesh), the German went for knight to f3, entering Sicilian Defense game against Gukesh with white pieces.
Nov 7, 2025 04:04 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: First few moves in Gukesh vs Frederik Svane
1. e4 c5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 96
4. 0-0 Bg7
5. d3d6
6. c3 Nf6
7. e5 Nd5
8. exd6 Qxd6
Nov 7, 2025 03:14 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Overall pairings
GM Frederik Svane (GER) 2638 vs GM D. Gukesh (IND) 2752
GM Nodirbek Yakubboev (UZB) 2689 vs GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen (CZE) 2664
GM Ivan Zemlyanskii (FID) 2596 vs GM Matthias Bluebaum (GER) 2687
GM Daniil Dubov (FID) 2684 vs GM Georg Meier (URU) 2596
GM Peter Leko (HUN) 2666 vs GM Kirill Alekseenko (AUT) 2679
GM Mustafa Yilmaz (TUR) 2591 vs GM Shant Sargsyan (ARM) 2667
Nov 7, 2025 02:56 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Indian pairings
GM D. Gukesh (2752) vs GM Frederik Svane (GER) 2638
GM Arjun Erigaisi (2773) vs GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov (UZB) 2640
GM Robert Hovhannisyan (ARM) 2633 vs GM R. Praggnanandhaa (2771)
GM V. Pranav (2641) vs GM Titas Stremavicius (LTU) 2531
GM Vincent Keymer (GER) 2755 vs GM M. Pranesh (2630)
GM Pentala Harikrishna (2697) vs GM Daniel Dardha (BEL) 2605
GM Sam Shankland (USA) 2654 vs GM Santosh Gujrathi Vidit (2716)
GM S L Narayanan (2617) vs GM Yangyi Yu (CHN) 2720
GM Diptayan Ghosh (2573) vs GM Gabriel Sargissian (ARM) 2624
GM Venkataraman Karthik (2579) vs GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU) 2655
Nov 7, 2025 02:36 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Indians in action on Friday
1. D. Gukesh
2. Arjun Erigaisi
3. Pentala Harikrishna
4. Diptayan Ghosh
5. Karthik Venkataraman
6. Vidit Gujrathi
7. Pranav V
8. Pranesh M
9. R. Praggnanandhaa
10. SL Narayanan
Nov 7, 2025 02:35 PM IST
FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 Round 3 Game 1 Live Updates: Hello!
Hello, and welcome to our continued live coverage of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, taking place in North Goa. The first round saw seven out of the 24 Indians making an early exit from this prestigious biennial event. The second round saw seven more Indians crashing out of the event, leaving us with only 10 Indians who will be in action in Game 1 of Round 3 at Resort Rio Convention Centre in Arpora, Goa, on Friday.
Stay tuned as we bring you all the live action as it unfolds.
At the Chess World Cup, a question for Grandmasters: What after work? Their reply: Take a walk
Having won their second round games on Wednesday, Levon Aronian, sporting chess shorts, and Maxime Vachier Lagrave set off for a walk on Thursday afternoon in 29-degree heat while many of the others fight it out in tiebreaks at the FIDE World Cup in Resort Rio in Goa. (Express Photo by Amit Kamath)
As the sun sets on the Goan village of Arpora and another day at the FIDE World Cup ends, the road to Resort Rio, the venue where most of the players are also staying, gets busy. Not with vehicles, but Grandmasters. They set off in little groups, many wearing shorts and tracksuits that are a far cry from their usual attire of custom-fitted suits.
Where are they headed? Well, wherever their feet take them.
For a sport that demands hours of being seated at one place, walking has spawned its own folklore in chess. Some Grandmasters talk about five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand once ending up in another village while he went for a walk. It’s a fable that makes even Anand chuckle while dismissing it. He did add though that whenever he played the Tata Steel Chess event in the Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee, he always walked on the rest days to the neighbouring town of Beverwijk.
