India is set to host the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025, marking the country’s first major international chess tournament since the 2022 Chennai Chess Olympiad.

• FIDE, the international chess governing body listed India as the host in its 2025 calendar for the tournament scheduled from October 31 to November 27. 
• The event marks a long-awaited return to this land, with India last hosting the FIDE World Cup in 2002 in Hyderabad, where chess legend Viswanathan Anand bagged the title.
• The announcement caps off an extraordinary period for Indian chess. Gukesh Dommaraju’s stunning victory in the Candidates Tournament, followed by his triumph over China’s Ding Liren to become the youngest-ever World Chess Champion in Singapore, has taken the chess world by strom.