FIDE backtracks after naming India host for 2025 Chess World Cup in October-November
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FIDE had initially awarding internet hosting rights for the 2025 Chess World Cup to India, with the event happening within the months of October and November, solely to retract the knowledge from their official web site. If the event does happen in India, it will likely be the largest chess occasion within the nation because the 2022 Olympiad.
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India can be internet hosting the celebrated FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, chess.com, one of many sport’s largest web sites, reported on Monday. If the information seems to be true, it will likely be the primary main chess event that India can be internet hosting after the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai.
The information of India internet hosting the FIDE Chess World Cup in 2025 went viral after chess24 (a chess.com web site) and Rakesh Kulkarni, director of chess.com India, shared the information on X (Previously Twitter).
India set to hos FIDE Chess World Cup 2025
They shared the replace with screenshots from the FIDE web site, confirming that the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 will occur in India from 31 October to 27 November.
“HUGE!!! Appears to be like just like the FIDE World Cup 2025 can be held in India! 🇮🇳 from thirty first October 2025 to twenty seventh November, 2025,” Kulkarni wrote on X. “The 2025 @FIDE_chess World Cup is further prestigious as the highest three locations qualify for the 2026 FIDE Candidates! Thrilling information for Indian followers and gamers!”
HUGE!!!
Appears to be like just like the FIDE World Cup 2025 can be held in India! 🇮🇳 from thirty first October 2025 to twenty seventh November, 2025 ❤️The 2025 @FIDE_chess World Cup is further prestigious as the highest three locations qualify for the 2026 FIDE Candidates!
Thrilling information for Indian followers and gamers! 😍 pic.twitter.com/lyG8YtVrPV
— Rakesh Kulkarni (@itherocky) January 20, 2025
The FIDE Calendar has been up to date, with dates & venues for some main occasions revealed! https://t.co/sZ41OgOer1
Girls’s World Cup, Batumi, Georgia, Jul 5-29
Grand Swiss: Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sep 3-15
World Cup: India, 31 Oct-27 Nov
World Speedy & Blitz: Doha, Qatar, Dec 25-31 pic.twitter.com/L0ZufP56uR— chess24 (@chess24com) January 20, 2025
Nevertheless, the knowledge was quickly retracted from the FIDE web site which at present offers no data on the place the event can be hosted. Nonetheless, an All India Chess Federation (AICF) official has knowledgeable Sportstar that the affirmation of India internet hosting the Chess World Cup in 2025 is merely a formality and may come quickly.
“India will host the FIDE World Cup 2025, and we are going to quickly announce it formally with the ultimate dates,” a senior AICF official instructed Sportstar.
India’s Chess World Cup historical past
The final time India hosted a Chess World Cup was within the 2002 World Cup at Hyderabad with Viswanathan Anand rising because the winner. It was then known as the ‘Second Chess World Cup’. Anand had additionally received the ‘First Chess World Cup’ in 2000.
A revamped format for the FIDE World Cup was launched in 2005 which consisted of 128 gamers and continued until 2019. Since 2021, The FIDE World Cup has been expanded to 206 gamers.
No Indian has received the Chess World Cup since 2005, nevertheless, R Praggnanandhaa was the
runner-up in 2023 as Magnus Carlsen received the event.
The highest three gamers from the event will qualify for the 2026 FIDE Candidates. The winner of the 2026 Candidates will compete with D Gukesh within the subsequent World Chess Championship.
