FIDE Chess Rankings: World Champion Gukesh dethroned by India rival after dismal outing in Norway

Indian Grandmaster
Arjun Erigaisi
has grow to be the brand new India No. 1 within the newest FIDE chess rankings, going forward of
D Gukesh
, who not too long ago turned the World Champion. Within the up to date FIDE rankings, Erigaisi jumped to the third spot with an Elo ranking of 2782, whereas Gukesh is now positioned at quantity 5 with a 2776 ranking factors.

Gukesh had been within the highlight for his sensible efficiency on the Candidates Event and his historic win on the 2024 World Chess Championship. Nevertheless, a poor run on the not too long ago concluded Norway Chess 2025 has harm his scores and value him his place within the FIDE rankings.

Norway Chess 2025: Right here’s what went down within the closing spherical

Defending champion Magnus Carlsen, who was the in a single day chief with 15 factors after spherical 9, ended the match with 16 factors after fashioning the nice escape towards Erigaisi and steering the sport to a draw within the tenth spherical on Friday.

Gukesh completed third – the identical as within the 2023 version – with 14.5 factors, whereas Caruana was second with 15.5 factors. Erigaisi completed fifth with 13 factors.

Erigaisi received the Armageddon tie-break towards Carsen following the miraculous draw by the Norwegian, however it didn’t matter in the long run because the five-time world champion had already secured a degree with the stalemate to win the title.

Whereas Gukesh quietly walked out of the world after dropping to Caruana, Carlsen mentioned he needed to “actually battle for his life” to remain within the match towards Arjun Erigaisi.

A defeat for the Norwegian would have been catastrophic, because the Gukesh-Caruana recreation was nonetheless in progress, and a Classical win for both would have dashed his hopes of a seventh Norway Chess title and the accompanying prize purse of roughly USD 69,500.

The truth is, had Gukesh managed to attract his recreation towards the American Grandmaster, he would have secured the title, offered Carlsen had misplaced his Classical encounter towards Erigaisi.

Underneath the Norway Chess format, a Classical win earns three factors, whereas a draw offers every participant one level. A drawn recreation is adopted by an Armageddon tie-break to determine the winner, who’s awarded an extra half level.

(With company inputs)