16 Indians set to battle in FIDE World Cup 2025 Round 1
FIDE World Cup 2025 is going to witness a record number of Indian participation - 24. The first round will have 16 Indians in action, from debutants to the returning players. FIDE Women's World Cup 2025 winner, GM Divya Deshmukh drew the black pieces for the players with odd number of seeding in the first game of Round 1. World Cup is indubitably the most exciting and grueling event of the year as players will be tested in all three formats - Classical, Rapid and Blitz for four weeks. Among the former champions, GM Levon Aronian (USA), the only two-time winner of this event is taking part. The winner's trophy is named Viswanathan Anand Trophy, after the legend, India's first Grandmaster ever. Who will win the entire event and etch their name in the history? Round 1 Game 1 starts today from 3 p.m. IST. Photo: FIDE / Michal Walusza
Highest number of Indians in Round 1
The reigning FIDE Women's World Cup 2025 winner, GM Divya Deshmukh drew the color black. It means odd number seeded players will get the black pieces in Round 1 Game 1. The biggest change in tie-break games from the previous edition of World Cup is, sudden death Game which is a modified version of Armageddon. White gets 4 minutes + 2 seconds. Both players submit the bid which cannot be more than 4 minutes. The player who submits the lowest time wins the bid and plays with Black. If the sudden death game is drawn, black wins the match. For more details, please read the tournament regulations.
The color for the players with odd number seed is revealed as black for Game 1 of Round 1 | Photo: FIDE / Michal Walusza
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Round 1.1 pairings for Indian players
GM Kazybek Nogerbek (KAZ) - GM Raja Rithvik R
IM Harshavardhan G B - GM Mustafa Yilmaz (TUR)
IM Steven Rojas Salas (PER) - GM S L Narayanan
GM Pranav Venkatesh - Ala Eddine Boulrens (ALG)
GM Iniyan Pa - GM Dylan Isidro Berdayes Ason (CUB)
GM Max Warmerdam (NED) - GM Lalit Rohit
GM Xiongjian Peng (CHN) - GM Diptayan Ghosh
GM Roberto Garcia Pantoja (COL) - GM Karthik Venkataraman
GM Raunak Sadhwani - GM Daniel Barrish (RSA)
GM Georg Meier (URU) - IM Neelash Saha
GM Leon Luke Mendonca - IM Shixu Wang B (CHN)
GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly - GM Ahmad Ahmadzada (AZE)
GM Divya Deshmukh - GM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (GRE)
GM Pranesh M - IM Satbek Akhmedinov (KAZ)
GM Mateusz Bartel (POL) - IM Aronyak Ghosh
GM Andy Woodward (USA) - IM Himal Gusain
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