FIDE World Cup 2025 Semifinals Game 2 | Ft. Wei Yi vs Esipenko, Sindarov vs Yakubboev

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The FIDE World Cup 2025 will take place in Goa, India from 1st to 27th of November 2025 and will witness some of the best players in action. The total prize fund of the event is US$2 million with the winner taking home US$1,20,000. There are 3 spots to the Candidates as well at stake.

Format:
It is a 206-player knockout event. In the first round top 50 seeds get a bye. So it starts with 156 players and comes down to 78 and then the top 50 players join to have 128 players in round 2. There are 2 classical games in each match (90 mins for 40 moves + 30 mins for remaining moves with 30 seconds increment from move 1) and if the score stands at 1-1 then we have the following tiebreaks - 2 games of 15+10, 2 games of 10+10, 2 games of 5+3, 2 games of 3+2, followed by a sudden death which has a time control of 4+2 with special bidding for Black.

Schedule:
Round 1: 1st to 3rd November
Round 2: 4th to 6th November
Round 3: 7th to 9th November
Round 4: 11th to 13th November
Round 5: 14th to 16th November
Round 6: 17th to 19th November
Round 7: 21st to 23rd November
Round 8: 24th to 26th November
Each day the games start at 3 p.m. IST

Commentators:
The commentary panel consists of IM Tania Sachdev, IM Sagar Shah, Amruta Mokal, GM Harshit Raja, GM Sahaj Grover and Sahil Tickoo.

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