{"id":71697,"date":"2026-04-14T13:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/javokhir-sindarov-earns-world-chess-title-shot-with-stunning-candidates-win\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:57:19","slug":"javokhir-sindarov-earns-world-chess-title-shot-with-stunning-candidates-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/javokhir-sindarov-earns-world-chess-title-shot-with-stunning-candidates-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Javokhir Sindarov earns world chess title shot with stunning Candidates win"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Uzbek grandmaster wins Candidates with round to spare<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sindarov, 20, to face India\u2019s Gukesh for world title in fall<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Javokhir Sindarov will challenge for Gukesh Dommaraju\u2019s world chess championship this fall after clinching the Candidates tournament with a game to spare on Tuesday afternoon in Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Uzbek grandmaster closed out an emphatic victory in the 14-game double round-robin with a tame 58-move draw playing with the black pieces against Dutch star Anish Giri, moving to 9\u00bd points and leaving the world No 9 two adrift with one round remaining.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/14\/javokhir-sindarov-gukesh-world-chess-championship-candidates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbek grandmaster wins Candidates with round to spare Sindarov, 20, to face India\u2019s Gukesh for world title in fall Javokhir Sindarov will challenge for Gukesh Dommaraju\u2019s world chess championship this fall after clinching the Candidates tournament with a game to spare on Tuesday afternoon in Cyprus. The 20-year-old Uzbek grandmaster closed out an emphatic victory &#8230; <a title=\"Javokhir Sindarov earns world chess title shot with stunning Candidates win\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/javokhir-sindarov-earns-world-chess-title-shot-with-stunning-candidates-win\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Javokhir Sindarov earns world chess title shot with stunning Candidates win\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}