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P. Iniyan prize money

$13,000 in Chess World Cup prize money across 2 World Cups. The best of them was the Chess World Cup 2025, where P. Iniyan went out in round 2, for $7,000.

FIDE pays every player at a World Cup a fixed sum for the round they go out in. Each figure on this page is that sum, for the round P. Iniyan reached.

PRIZE MONEY $13k
BEST PAYDAY $7k
WORLD CUPS 2
ON THE MONEY LIST 251 of 743

P. Iniyan at each World Cup

Every edition since 2013 in P. Iniyan's draw, in order

2 of 7 played

season running total

P. Iniyan was not in the draw for 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023.

Every World Cup P. Iniyan was paid at

Newest first, with the round reached

World Cup Host Went out Prize
Chess World Cup 2025 Goa Round 2 $7,000
Chess World Cup 2021 Sochi Round 2 $6,000

Where P. Iniyan sits on the money list

Ranked 251 of 743 players paid at a World Cup since 2013

# Player Federation World Cups Prize money
241 Bilel Bellahcene Algeria 3 $13,250
242 Mircea Pârligras Romania 3 $13,250
243 Umida Omonova Uzbekistan 2 $13,250
244 Arseniy Nesterov FIDE flag 2 $13,000
245 Aydin Suleymanli Azerbaijan 2 $13,000
246 Dmitrij Kollars Germany 2 $13,000
247 Luis Paulo Supi Brazil 2 $13,000
248 Maksim Chigaev Spain 2 $13,000
249 Maxime Lagarde France 2 $13,000
250 Nikita Petrov Montenegro 2 $13,000
252 Temur Kuybokarov Australia 2 $13,000
253 Timur Gareyev United States 2 $13,000
254 Volodar Murzin FIDE flag 2 $13,000
255 Amir Zaibi Tunisia 3 $12,750
256 Fy Antenaina Rakotomaharo Madagascar 3 $12,500
257 Julia Ryjanova Australia 3 $12,500
258 Mobina Alinasab Iran 3 $12,500
259 Mohammad Fahad Rahman Bangladesh 3 $12,500
260 Aleksej Aleksandrov Belarus 2 $12,000
261 Aleksey Goganov Russia 2 $12,000

India's players

Everyone paid at a World Cup while playing for India, by what they won for it

$1,043,250 between them

# Player Prize money
01 Vidit Gujrathi $119,000
02 R Praggnanandhaa $113,000
03 Pentala Harikrishna $77,000
04 Arjun Erigaisi $70,000
05 Divya Deshmukh $60,250
06 Adhiban Baskaran $58,000
07 Gukesh Dommaraju $52,000
08 Koneru Humpy $44,500
09 Nihal Sarin $43,000
10 S. P. Sethuraman $38,000
11 Harika Dronavalli $34,750
12 S. L. Narayanan $27,000
13 Vaishali Rameshbabu $25,750
14 Aravindh Chithambaram $23,000
15 Karthik Venkataraman $23,000
16 Karthikeyan Murali $19,000
17 Surya Shekhar Ganguly $19,000
18 Pranav V $17,000
19 P. Iniyan $13,000
20 Diptayan Ghosh $11,000
21 Pranesh M $11,000
22 Krishnan Sasikiran $10,000
23 Padmini Rout $10,000
24 Viswanathan Anand $10,000
25 M. R. Lalith Babu $9,500
26 P. V. Nandhidhaa $8,750
27 Aronyak Ghosh $7,000
28 Raunak Sadhwani $7,000
29 Mary Ann Gomes $6,750
30 Vantika Agrawal $6,750
31 Abhijeet Gupta $6,000
32 Abhimanyu Puranik $6,000
33 Deep Sengupta $6,000
34 G. Akash $6,000
35 Parimarjan Negi $6,000
36 Bhakti Kulkarni $5,000
37 Nutakki Priyanka $5,000
38 Priyanka K $5,000
39 Kiran Manisha Mohanty $3,750
40 Harshavardhan G. B. $3,500

The top 40 of 45. The rest are on the India page.

Frequently asked questions

How much prize money has P. Iniyan won at the Chess World Cup?

$13,000 across 2 World Cups. That is 251st of the 743 players paid at a World Cup since 2013.

What was P. Iniyan's best World Cup?

The Chess World Cup 2025 in Goa, where P. Iniyan went out in round 2 and was paid $7,000.

How much did P. Iniyan win at the Chess World Cup 2025?

$7,000. P. Iniyan went out in round 2 in Goa.

How much did P. Iniyan win at the Chess World Cup 2021?

$6,000. P. Iniyan went out in round 2 in Sochi.

How does P. Iniyan compare with the rest of India?

P. Iniyan won 1.2% of the $1,043,250 paid to India's players at World Cups since 2013, 19th of the 45.

Where to next

The World Cups P. Iniyan played, and the players around them

World Cups P. Iniyan played

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