The top three finishers in this event will get spots for Candidates 2026, a challenger tournament where the winner of the event gets to challenge the reigning World Champion. SCROLL DOWN TO CATCH ALL THE LIVE UPDATES OF FIDE World Cup 2025 ROUND 3 GAME 2 FROM GOA FIDE World Cup: Arjun Erigaisi reiterates the class he showed at Chess Olympiad with blistering win to start third round A clear pattern has emerged for Arjun that a match against a lower-rated player often becomes a heavily skewed affair in his favour. (Photo Credit: Michal Waluzsa/FIDE) It was during the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest that the Indian men’s team attracted a lot of eyeballs, not particularly for the immense firepower that the team possessed, but also for the board order in which the team would play. The top three names for India were R. Praggnanandhaa, D. Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi, with each having the calibre to take the top board. Arjun was the highest-ranked Indian at that time and, naturally, an ideal fit to take …