Javokhir Sindarov enjoys record Candidates Tournament win to earn World Championship place

Javokhir Sindarov will face defending champion Gukesh Dommaraju in the men’s World Chess Championship later this year after the 20-year-old won the Candidates Tournament in record-breaking style.Sindarov, from Uzbekistan, was rated fourth out of eight players entering the Candidates, a tournament which determines the challenger for the world title, but confirmed his victory in the penultimate round after drawing with his closest rival, Anish Giri, in Cyprus on Tuesday. His six wins is a record for the tournament since it became a double round robin format in 2013.Advertisement