Gukesh, Divya Deshmukh, Vaishali vs Tan Zhongyi and Arjun Erigaisi vs Vincent Keymer today matches results and standings Latest Updates

FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 Chess LIVE: Gukesh, Divya Deshmukh, Vaishali and Arjun Erigaisi are among the stars in action. (PHOTOS: Michal Walusza / FIDE)

FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 Chess Final Day LIVE Updates: The final of the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament has begun in Samarkand with 18 Indians in action. All eyes will be on players like Vaishali Rameshbabu and Arjun Erigaisi, who still have a shot at qualifying for the FIDE Candidates securing at least a top two spot in their respective events.
While Vaishali is taking on former women’s world champion Tan Zhongyi, Arjun will face Vincent Keymer. Tan has already secured qualification to the Candidates through the Women’s World Cup two months back. Vaishali is currently joint leader in the standings. Meanwhile, there are three Indian players — Arjun Erigaisi, Nihal Sarin and Vidit Santosh Gujrathi — who find themselves just half a point behind the five tournament leaders in the open section heading into today’s final round. Arjun has the best chance among Indians to secure a top 2 spot, and consequent entry into the Candidates. Story continues below this ad
You can trace how each of our featured games have progressed with the interactives below (Just use the right and left arrows to move the pieces yourself.) You can also watch the live streams of top games featuring Indian players through the YouTube embeds below. You can scroll past the interactives and the videos to follow our live updates from the final round at the FIDE Grand Swiss.
INTERACTIVE: Vaishali vs Tan Zhongyi

WATCH: Vaishali takes on ex-women’s world champion Tan Zhongyi

INTERACTIVE: Arjun Erigaisi vs Vincent Keymer

INTERACTIVE: Gukesh D vs Andrei Volokitin

INTERACTIVE: Divya Deshmukh vs Ivan Cheparinov

WATCH: Divya Deshmukh faces Ivan Cheparinov in Round 11 at FIDE Grand Swiss

INTERACTIVE: Nihal Sarin vs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave

WATCH: Nihal Sarin takes on Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in Round 11 at FIDE Grand Swiss

INTERACTIVE: Vidit Santosh Gujrathi vs Abhimanyu Mishra

INTERACTIVE: Praggnanandhaa R vs Nikolas Theodorou

FIDE Grand Swiss: Gukesh tastes victory for 1st time in 7 games; Vaishali one game away from Candidates spot

Vaishali Rameshbabu (centre) could secure her second Candidates spot from the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament; Arjun Erigaisi and Nihal Sarin (left) have faint hopes of making it to the Candidates; Gukesh Dommaraju (right) finally managed to get a win. (PHOTOS: Michal Walusza / FIDE)

World champion Gukesh Dommaraju managed to get a victory at last at the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament after a run of six games where he lost three games and drew three. Gukesh defeated Armenian grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian on Sunday in what was the Indian teenager’s third win at the Grand Swiss tournament in Samarkand. Gukesh also defeated French grandmaster Etienne Bacrot and Spanish GM Daniil Yuffa at the tournament but both those wins had come in the first three rounds at the event.
Since the win over Yuffa, Gukesh drew with compatriot Arjun Erigaisi before losing three games in a row to Abhimanyu Mishra (rating of 2611), Greek GM Nikolas Theodorou (2646), and Turkish teenage prodigy Ediz Gurel (2631). Gukesh had managed to arrest the spate of defeats a hard-fought draw in a six-hour, 103-move draw with Divya Deshmukh. He was then held to a draw another Armenian GM, Robert Hovhannisyan. Gukesh, playing with white pieces, managed to get a resignation out of Sargissian in 42 moves. It was a game where there was just one inaccuracy from the Armenian on move 22 (22… dxe3) which the world champion from Chennai exploited in incremental gains to eventually get a winning position the time the resignation came.
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