Surya Shekhar Ganguly prize money
$19,000 in Chess World Cup prize money across 3 World Cups. The best of them was the Chess World Cup 2025, where Surya Shekhar Ganguly 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 Surya Shekhar Ganguly reached.
Surya Shekhar Ganguly at each World Cup
Every edition since 2013 in Surya Shekhar Ganguly's draw, in order
season running total
Surya Shekhar Ganguly was not in the draw for 2013, 2017, 2021, 2023.
Every World Cup Surya Shekhar Ganguly 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 2019 | Khanty-Mansiysk | Round 1 | $6,000 |
| Chess World Cup 2015 | Baku | Round 1 | $6,000 |
Where Surya Shekhar Ganguly sits on the money list
Ranked 183 of 743 players paid at a World Cup since 2013
| # | Player | Federation | World Cups | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 173 | Tin Jingyao | Singapore | 3 | $20,750 |
| 174 | Valentina Gunina | FIDE flag | 2 | $20,750 |
| 175 | Alexei Shirov | Spain | 2 | $20,000 |
| 176 | Bobby Cheng | Australia | 3 | $20,000 |
| 177 | Lei Tingjie | China | 1 | $20,000 |
| 178 | Shamsiddin Vokhidov | Uzbekistan | 3 | $20,000 |
| 179 | Vahap Şanal | Turkey | 2 | $19,750 |
| 180 | Levan Pantsulaia | Georgia | 4 | $19,250 |
| 181 | Aleksandar Inđić | Serbia | 3 | $19,000 |
| 182 | Karthikeyan Murali | India | 3 | $19,000 |
| 184 | Zhu Jiner | China | 2 | $19,000 |
| 185 | Carissa Yip | United States | 3 | $18,500 |
| 186 | Andrei Volokitin | Ukraine | 3 | $18,000 |
| 187 | Axel Bachmann | Paraguay | 3 | $18,000 |
| 188 | Emilio Córdova | Peru | 3 | $18,000 |
| 189 | Neuris Delgado Ramírez | Paraguay | 3 | $18,000 |
| 190 | Varuzhan Akobian | United States | 3 | $18,000 |
| 191 | Klaudia Kulon | Poland | 3 | $17,250 |
| 192 | Bardiya Daneshvar | Iran | 2 | $17,000 |
| 193 | Daniel Dardha | Belgium | 2 | $17,000 |
India's players
Everyone paid at a World Cup while playing for India, by what they won for it
| # | 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 Surya Shekhar Ganguly won at the Chess World Cup?
$19,000 across 3 World Cups. That is 183rd of the 743 players paid at a World Cup since 2013.
What was Surya Shekhar Ganguly's best World Cup?
The Chess World Cup 2025 in Goa, where Surya Shekhar Ganguly went out in round 2 and was paid $7,000.
How much did Surya Shekhar Ganguly win at the Chess World Cup 2025?
$7,000. Surya Shekhar Ganguly went out in round 2 in Goa.
How much did Surya Shekhar Ganguly win at the Chess World Cup 2019?
$6,000. Surya Shekhar Ganguly went out in round 1 in Khanty-Mansiysk.
How much did Surya Shekhar Ganguly win at the Chess World Cup 2015?
$6,000. Surya Shekhar Ganguly went out in round 1 in Baku.
How does Surya Shekhar Ganguly compare with the rest of India?
Surya Shekhar Ganguly won 1.8% of the $1,043,250 paid to India's players at World Cups since 2013, 17th of the 45.
Where to next
The World Cups Surya Shekhar Ganguly played, and the players around them