R Praggnanandhaa and D Gukesh are ranked second and third in the 2025 FIDE Circuit Standings after finishing as the top two ...

Beyond all that, it also isn't that time-consuming in what is a very important year for him in the FIDE ... year's Candidates tournament, the winner of which will face Dommaraju Gukesh in the ...

The world champion leads compatriot Praggnanandhaa and Uzbekistan's Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tie break criteria. Can he hold on?

He started the year with a seventh-place finish in the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee, then finished a disappointing fifth in the FIDE Candidates tournament in Toronto, where D. Gukesh ...

Interestingly, the latter two were part of his team of seconds during the FIDE World Championship. Gukesh's win over Giri ... is how Gukesh had won the Candidates tournament last year too ...