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GM Javokhir Sindarov
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Javokhir Sindarov

Flag of Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Rating 2778 20 years old
B1 // At a glance

The essentials.

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Born
8 December 2005 20 years old
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Place of birth
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Grandmaster since
October 2018 at 12 years, 10 months, 8 days
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Peak rating
2778 September 2026
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Current rating
2778
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Federation
Uzbekistan (UZB)
B2 // Career

The road so far.

Javokhir Sindarov learned the game from his grandfather at four and a half and was a grandmaster at twelve, the second-youngest in history at the time. With the Uzbek team he won Olympiad gold in Chennai in 2022.

In 2025 he became the youngest and the first Uzbek winner of the Chess World Cup, and in 2026 he won the Candidates with an undefeated 10/14. He travels to Geneva as the challenger and with the higher rating.

B3 // Achievements

The biggest results.

  1. 2018

    Grandmaster at twelve

    At 12 years, 10 months and 8 days, the second-youngest grandmaster in history at the time.

  2. 2019 / 2021

    Champion of Uzbekistan

    National champion twice, at the ages of thirteen and fifteen.

  3. 2022

    Olympiad gold with Uzbekistan

    Team gold at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, the country’s first Olympiad title.

  4. 2024

    Past 2700

    Crosses the 2700 mark and settles into the extended world elite.

  5. 2025

    World Cup winner

    Beat Wei Yi in the final as the youngest, and the first Uzbek, winner of the event.

  6. 2026

    Winner of the Candidates

    An undefeated 10/14, the highest score ever achieved in the current format.

B4 // Numbers

What the collected games show.

Computed from the classical games we collect for this match. Both players get the same metrics.

Games tracked

9

5 wins, 3 draws, 1 losses

Score

6.5 / 9

Points per game: 72%

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With White
4 / 4
With Black
2.5 / 5
Average opponent

2637

from 9 games

Mean accuracy loss

Opening
0.5 percentage points

from 9 games

Middlegame
0.7 percentage points

from 9 games

Endgame
0.8 percentage points

from 2 games

Largest swing

9.0

Largest loss of win probability in a single move.

Most surprising strong move

Rd4+

<1%

Objectively strong, rarely played at 2700 level.

391 analysed half-moves from 9 games. Small sample: these are tendencies, not verdicts. The numbers grow with every game collected. Computed by the Bogner Chess AI Coach. The numbers cover the named player’s moves only.

B5 // Games

Every game we track.

Every game of Javokhir Sindarov we have collected, newest first.

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