New Delhi more likely to host FIDE World Cup 2025 however set to lose Freestyle Chess Grand Slam to Europe – The Instances of India

NEW DELHI: New Delhi is more likely to host the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 from October 31 to November 27, marking the match’s return to Indian soil after almost 23 years.
India final hosted the FIDE World Cup in 2002 in Hyderabad, the place chess legend Viswanathan Anand clinched the title.
TimesofIndia.com understands that New Delhi is favoured over different cities to host this prestigious occasion.
“First, FIDE points a round, adopted by authorities approval concerning which metropolis will host it. Since it is the World Cup, the probably selection is the capital, Delhi,” an AICF official advised TimesofIndia.com.
“For all world tournaments, the federal government’s first desire is at all times Delhi. The venue, as soon as determined, stays fastened. We can’t relocate the gamers, they usually don’t have any points touring to Delhi,” the official added.
“Aside from the Olympiad, we have now hosted all main tournaments in Delhi. The Olympiad required a bigger capability, making it troublesome to e-book lodging and handle transportation. That is why we moved it to Tamil Nadu,” the supply defined, recalling how India hosted the Chess Olympiad 2022, with 180 international locations taking part.
Earlier than the lads’s occasion in India, FIDE will host the Girls’s World Cup individually, scheduled to happen from July 5 to July 19 in Batumi, Georgia.
Moreover, TimesofIndia.com can verify that the fifth leg of the FIDE Girls’s Grand Prix Sequence might be held in Maharashtra, India, from April 13 to 24 this yr.
Whereas Delhi is about to host the largest chess occasion of the yr, it’s more likely to lose the internet hosting rights for the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.
As reported by TimesofIndia.com final January, occasion organisers had been contemplating shifting the match out of Delhi resulting from a scarcity of investor curiosity.
The scenario nonetheless stays the identical, with TimesofIndia.com now understanding that an alternate venue in Europe is being explored by Freestyle Chess.
Following Vincent Keymer’s victory within the German leg, the tour will proceed to Paris (April 8-15), New York (July 17-24), after which — what was initially deliberate for New Delhi (September 17-24) — earlier than concluding in Cape City (December 5-12).