There are 64 gamers heading into spherical three of the 2025 FIDE World Cup after spherical two tiebreaks, the place one other 27 gamers had been eradicated on Thursday. The upset of the day was GM Lorenzo Lodici‘s (2572) match win in opposition to GM Hans Niemann (2729). One match went the total distance and reached the primary armageddon tiebreak of the occasion; GM Rasmus Svane prevailed after 9 video games in opposition to GM Rauf Mamedov.
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The primary classical of spherical three is on Friday, November 7, beginning at 4:30 a.m. ET / 10:30 CET / 3 p.m. IST.
Spherical 2 Tiebreak Matches
| Board | Participant 1 | End result | Participant 2 | Winner Will Face |
| 1 | Praggnanandhaa R | 5-3 | Temur Kuybokarov | Robert Hovhannisyan |
| 2 | Denis Makhnyov | 1.5-2.5 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | Jose Martinez |
| 3 | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | 3-1 | Gergely Kantor | Nils Grandelius |
| 4 | Lorenzo Lodici | 2.5-1.5 | Hans Niemann | Michael Adams |
| 5 | Yu Yangyi | 4.5-3.5 | Felix Blohberger | S L Narayanan |
| 6 | Vidit Gujrathi | 2.5-1.5 | Faustino Oro | Sam Shankland |
| 7 | Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis | 2.5-1.5 | Nihal Sarin | Aleksey Grebnev |
| 8 | Sam Sevian | 3-1 | Tin Jingyao | Evgeniy Najer |
| 9 | Bai Jinshi | 2-4 | Daniil Dubov | Georg Meier |
| 10 | Mustafa Yilmaz | 2.5-1.5 | Bu Xiangzhi | Shant Sargsyan |
| 11 | Shant Sargsyan | 3.5-2.5 | Jorge Cori | Mustafa Yilmaz |
| 12 | Pouya Idani | 4.5-3.5 | Karthikeyan Murali | Andrey Esipenko |
| 13 | Grigoriy Oparin | 1.5-2.5 | Daniel Dardha | Pentala Harikrishna |
| 14 | Rasmus Svane | 6-5 | Rauf Mamedov | Awonder Liang |
| 15 | Bogdan-Daniel Deac | 2.5-1.5 | Aydin Suleymanli | Karthik Venkataraman |
| 16 | Radoslaw Wojtaszek | 2.5-1.5 | Maxime Lagarde | Vladimir Fedoseev |
| 17 | S L Narayanan | 5-3 | Nikita Vitiugov | Yu Yangyi |
| 18 | Nikolas Theodorou | 2.5-1.5 | Aleksandar Indjic | Javokhir Sindarov |
| 19 | Maxim Rodshtein | 2-4 | Gabriel Sargissian | Diptayan Ghosh |
| 20 | Haik Martirosyan | 1.5-2.5 | Vladislav Artemiev | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
| 21 | Michael Adams | 6-4 | Ivan Cheparinov | Lorenzo Lodici |
| 22 | Etienne Bacrot | 1.5-2.5 | Nils Grandelius | Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |
| 23 | Jose Martinez | 4.5-3.5 | Velimir Ivic | Nodirbek Abdusattorov |
| 24 | Dmitrij Kollars | 1-3 | Pranesh M | Vincent Keymer |
| 25 | Aryan Tari | 1.5-2.5 | Pranav Venkatesh | Titas Stremavicius |
| 26 | Robert Hovhannisyan | 3-1 | Raunak Sadhwani | Praggnanandhaa R |
| 27 | Shamsiddin Vokhidov | 3-1 | Maksim Chigaev | Arjun Erigaisi |
Video games, Outcomes, and Bracket.
GM Rafael Leitao goes over the total Recreation of the Day beneath. (Will probably be added later).
Who’s Eradicated?
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The 2025 FIDE World Cup, which takes place from November 1 to 26 in Goa, India, determines three spots within the 2026 FIDE Candidates Match. It’s a 206-player single-elimination knockout match with eight rounds. Every match consists of two classical video games adopted by speedy and blitz tiebreaks if wanted. The prize fund is $2 million.
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