Uzbek chess prodigy Javokhir Sindarov is meticulously making ready to face world champion Gukesh Dommaraju’s peak efficiency within the extremely anticipated World Chess Championship, disregarding latest match outcomes.
IMAGE: Javokhir Sindarov is making ready to face the strongest model of defending champion Gukesh of their upcoming World Chess Championship match. {Photograph}: Niki Riga/FIDE
Key Factors
- Javokhir Sindarov is making ready for the strongest model of world champion Gukesh Dommaraju for the upcoming World Chess Championship.
- Sindarov, a 20-year-old Uzbek prodigy, secured his shot on the crown by profitable the Candidates Event and the World Cup.
- The championship match in opposition to Gukesh, additionally 20, will happen in Geneva from November 24 to December 12.
- Sindarov dismisses Gukesh’s latest uneven outcomes, stating he’s making ready for his opponent’s greatest chess kind.
- His profitable season, together with the Candidates win, has strengthened his preparation technique, which he plans to refine fairly than overhaul.
Javokhir Sindarov says he’s making ready for the strongest model of world champion Gukesh Dommaraju fairly than studying into latest outcomes because the Uzbek prodigy gears up for the youngest World Chess Championship match in historical past.
The 20-year-old secured a shot on the crown by profitable this yr’s Candidates Event, including to the World Cup title he captured earlier within the season and cementing his place amongst a brand new era reshaping elite chess.
Sindarov will face defending champion Gukesh, additionally 20, in Geneva, with the title to be determined over 14 classical video games from November 24 to December 12.
Sindarov’s Method To The Championship
Talking forward of the fourth season of the International Chess League (GCL), the place he’ll characterize the FYERS American Gambits because the group’s icon participant, Sindarov mentioned he anticipated an engrossing battle.
“Gukesh may be very robust. I performed with him just a few occasions and I actually really feel he’s a really robust chess participant,” Sindarov instructed Reuters over a video name.
“I can not say a whole lot of issues earlier than the match. I simply wish to play my good chess and revel in it.”
Ignoring Current Type And Exterior Opinions
Whereas a lot of the pre-match dialogue has centred on Gukesh’s uneven outcomes since lifting the world title in Singapore in 2024, Sindarov mentioned latest kind provided little indication of how the championship would unfold.
“I did not take what he performed within the final tournaments severely as a result of throughout a match he will be fully totally different. I am making an attempt to organize for his greatest chess kind,” Sindarov mentioned.
Whereas a number of main gamers, together with Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, have weighed in on the competition, Sindarov mentioned outdoors opinions wouldn’t form his preparation.
The challenger pointed to Gukesh’s victory over Ding Liren in 2024 in Singapore as a reminder that expectations and rankings can shortly develop into irrelevant as soon as a world championship begins.
“Folks mentioned Ding would lose very simply, however in the course of the match we noticed how nicely he performed and the way shut it was,” Sindarov mentioned.
Sindarov’s Profitable Season And Preparation Technique
Sindarov will enter the match after arguably the strongest season of his profession. He received the Candidates with a spherical to spare, stringing collectively 4 consecutive victories in opposition to elite opposition in one of the vital dominant performances in latest reminiscence.
His preparations for Geneva are being overseen by coach Roman Vidonyak, with Sindarov decided to not overhaul a formulation that has already delivered main success.
“We is not going to change a whole lot of issues as a result of what we did labored in our final tournaments,” he mentioned.
“We’ll simply enhance what we did earlier than the Candidates and the World Cup.”
The Uzbek has not been proof against setbacks, although. On the Sinquefield Cup in August, he suffered a defeat by one other Indian grandmaster, R. Praggnanandhaa, one among solely two losses he has recorded this yr.
Sindarov acknowledged Praggnanandhaa has typically posed distinctive challenges all through their careers however stopped wanting studying something into options that the Indian may assist Gukesh put together for the title match.
“I feel Gukesh would not want his recommendation as a result of each of us perceive the place we’ve got weaknesses and the place we’re not robust,” he mentioned.
