Candidates: How Javokhir Sindarov is making engine analysis look silly | Chess News
4 min readApr 5, 2026 04:13 PM IST Javokhir Sindarov is not only making his opponents doubt themselves. The Candidates leader with 5.5/6 is even making engine analysis look ridiculous. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO It so happened that the computer guessing the percentages reckoned a draw as the Wei Yi game, Sindarov’s fifth win, neared the endgame. At the post game press conference, Sindarov, riding a confidence wave, would chuckle, “Wait, I lost my advantage somewhere?” This was after the FIDE host told him he had lost advantage 5 to 10 moves after he had the Chinese in trouble playing h3 before he played e3. “His position was very hard. I was thinking I’m just winning. It never can be draw,” the 20-year-old remarked. Wei Yi would say, “Maybe I had some chances to hold but with time trouble and big pressure it’s quite difficult ” Sindarov saw only rook d6 losing and immediately went to this line. “If you play with rook f3. I played something like this with Arjun (Erigasi) when I had …









