Candidates Tournament 2026
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The 2026 Candidates Tournament was an eight-player chess tournament, held to determine the challenger for the World Chess Championship 2026. The tournament took place at the Cap St Georges Hotel and R
Javokhir Sindarov, the winner of the tournament, advanced to the World Chess Championship 2026 match.
View of part of the Cap St. Georges Hotel and Resort where the tournament took place
Javokhir Sindarov
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Javokhir Sindarov is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he became a grandmaster in 2018 at the age of 12 years, 10 months, and 8 days—the second-youngest in history at the time. Representing
Candidates Tournament 2026
…April 2026, alongside the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026. As with every Candidates Tournament since 2013, it was a double round-robin tournament. Javokhir Sindarov won five of the first six rounds, winning the tournament with a round to spare and setting a points record for the Candidates in the process. He thus…
Sindarov in 2026
Sindarov (left) with Daniel Naroditsky's mother, Elena, at the Naroditsky Memorial 2026