An Uzbek Storm in Cyprus: FIDE Candidates Tournament

FIDE Candidates

FIDE candidates is going, but, some things are remarkable. So what are them? What happened?

An Uzbek Storm is Destroying Everyone

An Uzbek player is destroying everyone: GM Javokhir Sindarov. He did 5.5/6 in the tournament and if he goes like this, I will going to he will play with GM Gukesh Dommaraju. He beat World number 3 GM Hikaru Nakamura and World number 2 GM Fabiano Caruana. He's at the first place, here's the leaderboard:The leaderboard of FIDE Candidates Tournament. Photo: chess.com

Amazing Matches

Round 5: GM Fabiano Caruana - Matthias Bluebaum

In this match, Caruana started with a huge kingside attack, than, after Bluebaum's mistake, he found the mate.
And he finished with a pawn! Pawns are actually good!
After the match, this happened:

I think every move I made was terrible!

—Matthias Bluebaum

Let's look to Sindarov beat Hikaru.

Round 5: GM Hikaru Nakamura - GM Javokhir Sindarov

In this match, Hikaru had no chance to win after thinking 67 MINUTES and playing the mistake.
And after the match, Sindarov said this sentences:

He just thought one hour and played the wrong move, and after this I take this advantage and played very well, in my opinion!

—Javokhir Sindarov

And Hikaru said this in the interview:

This was 100 percent on the people who were working for me.

—Hikaru Nakamura

Sindarov waited 67 minutes for Hikaru's move. Photo: Yoav Nisenbaum / FIDE.
And, you can see this in X app:
https://x.com/i/status/2040098122794205313
But, how Sindarov destroyed Caruana? Let's see.
Think, why Hikaru thinked 67 minutes and just did a mistake? Which move he could play? Write in forum!

Round 4: GM Javokhir Sindarov - GM Fabiano Caruana

I saw, at the 34th move, the eval bar was +9.3 but at the 35th move it became +50.4! WHAT?!
Sindarov had 2 brilliancy, and this Uzbek Star played with 3150 rating performance.
This is a very high rating performance for him. Now in the 7th round, he's currently playing, and he's playing against GM Anish Giri. And, GM Magnus Carlsen said this sentences about Javokhir Sindarov:
https://x.com/i/status/2040154166262104492

Uzbek Storm is going on!

Now he's playing against Giri, but they are in a draw position. To sum up, Sindarov is destroying the tournament like a storm. He beat world number 2 and 3, and he became world number 5. Congrats, Uzbek Star, congrats, Javokhir Sindarov!
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