New Delhi: India’s campaign at the FIDE World Cup 2025 ended with grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi crashing out of the quarterfinals. Erigaisi, who was the lone Indian survivor in the event, was knocked our after going down against Wei Yi of China 1.5-2.5 in the first set of tiebreak games in Goa on Wednesday.

The loss came as a shocker for Arjun who ran out of luck in the rapid tiebreak games wherein the Chinese put pressure in the first game before eventually drawing while in the second Arjun lost control and ended up losing. Having drawn both the games under Classical chess, Arjun was black in the first game of rapid and employed the French defense.

It did not turn out to be a great choice as Arjun was soon on the backfoot losing a rook for minor piece. The Chinese chess player had a h

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