FIDE World Cup 2025 - Games and Results

The FIDE World Cup takes place in Goa, India, Sat 1st to Wed 26th Nov 2025. Players include: World Champion Gukesh, Erigaisi, Praggnanandhaa, Giri, So, Keymer, Wei Yi, Abdusattorov, Mamedyarov, Niemann, MVL, Nepomniachtchi, Le, Rapport, Aronian etc. It is a seven round knockout but the top 50 players only enter the competition in round 2 alongside the 78 winners of Round 1. The top three finishers will qualify for the Candidates tournament although players such as Gukesh and Giri and Caruana don't require this and the extra place will be awarded to "another path" in the qualification system. The Women's World Cup event that regularly takes place alongside was instead held in July as a separate tournament which I think was better for both.