Alireza Firouzja is playing against Javokhir Sindarov from a special room (Screengrabs) NEW DELHI: A highly unusual scene unfolded at the Grand Chess Tour’s Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2026 on Monday when French Grandmaster Alireza Firouzja played his classical game against Uzbek prodigy Javokhir Sindarov in a special room while confined to bed because of…
It felt like a return to the work-from-home aesthetic of the coronavirus pandemic. Alireza Firouzja, the French grandmaster who’s made a name for himself for his chic sartorial sense, lay sprawled on a hotel room bed sporting red boxing shorts and a black T-shirt, wearing a sock in one leg while the other foot was…
3 min readUpdated: May 15, 2026 11:55 PM IST Javokhir Sindarov’s starting to look human again. Barely a month after he rampaged his way through the Candidates tournament, winning the cut-throat 14-round event without a single defeat, the 20-year-old Uzbek prodigy was handed a brutal loss by Indian grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa in a second round…
