FIDE World Cup 30 October - 27 November 2025

[LawrenceCooper]

Armageddon in Sevian-Lodici after six white wins in a row.

Sevian wins the armageddon game with black to end a crazy match.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Keymar is out

Ah well, he was my pick to win the whole thing

(its Keym*e*r, though)

[Mick Norris]

Live ratings in brackets

Svane (2654.9) v Sindarov (2725.2)
Harikrishna (2693.0) v Martinez (2663.4)

Yakubboev (2694.2) v Sargissian (2616 - he's outside the top 100, so no live rating I could find)
Liem Le (2733.6) v Donchenko (2662.0)

Dubov (2671.4) v Shankland (2661.8 )
Grebnev (2630.8 ) v Esipenko (2687.4)

Sevian (2691.6) v Wei Yi (2753.4)
Aronian (2733.0) v Erigaisi (2771.6)

[Mick Norris]

7 draws so far, Sindarov pressing against Svane

[Mick Norris]

Sindarov wins

[LawrenceCooper]

7 draws so far, Sindarov pressing against Svane

Sindarov wins after 68 moves.

[NickFaulks]

Has Sevian just blundered a pawn in the opening?

https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-worl ... E/L4LRUhLr

[LawrenceCooper]

Has Sevian just blundered a pawn in the opening?

https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-worl ... E/L4LRUhLr

He has. Possibly the opening lulled him into a false sense of security.

[Jonathan Rogers]

He is hardly losing, all the same.

[Jonathan Rogers]

So far - hold on to your seats everyone - six positions appear to be equal and White has an edge in two. There is some scope for play in Svane's game, but probably not as much as he would have wanted, since he is the only player who needs to win today.

[LawrenceCooper]

Grebnev-Esipenko, Dubov-Shankland, Harikrishna-Martinez all drawn.

[LawrenceCooper]

Aronian blundered and is knocked out by Arjun. Yakubboev beat Sargassian.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Aronian's exit means that all three qualifiers will be new candidates, and thus there will be four new candidates overall. A sign of how competitive and fast-moving the chess world is, or (if they do badly) how flawed the knockout system is as a qualifier?

[Jonathan Rogers]

Wei Yi looking likely to convert that extra pawn after all. It is of course a huge shame that he meets Erigaisi in the QF, meaning that a maximum of one qualifier whom one can readily imagine making an impact in the candidates'.

[NickFaulks]

Aronian blundered and is knocked out by Arjun.

38...Nh3 was a nice trick, ending a good game, but both players had already missed 33...Bxh2, winning.