Women World Chess Cup 2025: All news / Live games / Round 1 pairings

This is the Round 1, Game 1, Board 3 match from FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025 featuring Bella Khotenashvili taking on Esperanca Caxita

GM Bella Khotenashvili – WIM Esperanca Caxita, FIDE World Chess Cup 2025

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Women World Chess Cup 2025: All news / Live games / Round 1 pairings

This is the Round 1, Game 1, Board 1 match from FIDE Women’s World Cup 2025 featuring IM Carissa Yip taking on WFM Hannah Wilson

IM Carissa Yip – WFM Hannah Wilson, FIDE World Chess Cup 2025

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Magnus Carlsen won the encounter with a total score 4-2. But the score does not tell the whole story! Carlsen took the lead in game 3, after defeating Nakamura with white. Hikaru had a shot in the next game, but in a rare turn of events resigned in a winning position, missing 33. Rfg3! Replay the game here

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Freestyle Chess Paris 2025 boasts a strong field, including world’s N1 Magnus Carlsen and World Champion Gukesh. Even after the withdraw of Alireza Firouzja and the disappearance of Hans Nieman (see this, this, this, and this) Freestyle Paris remains one of the strongest events of 2025.

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Where to watch the live games of Gukesh – Ding Liren

Just one day remains to the opening ceremony of Gukesh – Ding Liren in Singapore, and three days to the start of the first game. The general schedule that the event follows is three games played plus a rest day (see the full schedule here). Every game will have the moves live with Stockfish analysis at the Chessdom’s live page, in cooperation with Lichess. The innovation of this year’s coverage is the Leela Chess Zero Neural Network analysis. It was used for the first time in 2018 and now it is back on the Lc0 official page. For the past week, they have been testing by streaming League 1 of TCEC. Mentioning TCEC, this is also a place where chess fans will gather to discuss the moves of the Gukesh – Ding match, parallel to the top engines battling out the Premier Division. Here is a full list of where to watch the live games of Gukesh – Ding Liren, which will be updated as more valuable locations appear.

Live games Gukesh Ding by Lichess + Stockfish / Live Leela Chess Zero / Live Top Chess Engine Championship

When will the streamers publish Gukesh – Ding Liren videos

As of this moment, Chessdom’s research has detected 250+ streamers preparing for the World Chess Championship 2024, that will start streaming as early as this Saturday. The majority of these streams will be in English, with some in Spanish, German, Russian, and other languages. Below is a list of the major streamers, if you see a valuable stream missed, do not hesitate to contact us

Since 2018 the key place to understand games of the World Chess Championship has been Agadmator. Antonio Radić is the Croatian YouTuber and chess player, who’s Youtube channel has loyal 1,3M subscribers and has raked 778,645,854 views (average 190 000 views per video) . Agadmator’s channel is the one with the balanced objective view and analysis of the key moments of the game. For the Indian point of view, Chessbase India with Sarag Shah is not to be missed – with 2,1M subscribers and 1,944,505,436 views (average 135 865 views per video) it has recently surpassed Chess.com’s Youtube viewership and is the place for Gukesh fans. The third key place to follow the World Chess Championship is the Take Take Take app by Magnus Carlsen, who recently published his preview.

Here is a list of live video coverage and streaming to follow, with their respective schedule

• Agadmator – detailed video analysis right after each game
• Chessbase India – exciting live coverage by Sagar Shah and guests
• Take Take Take – the Magnus Carlsen app, with views by the many times World Champion and guests
• Hikaru Nakamura – the pineapple view on the Gukesh – Ding Liren match
• Gotham Chess – daily game recaps
• FIDE – live commentaries by England’s David Howell and Jovanka Houska
• TCEC – live and chat with the computer experts

Which social media to follow for Gukesh – Ding Liren

The valuable social channels that will cover the Gukesh – Ding Liren World Chess Championship are in the hundreds and even thousands. While it is impossible to make a comprehensive list, Chessdom will make sure to retrweet key Twitter/X coverage here and repost Facebook posts here. The most important social media posts will also appear as articles and news on Chessdom.