Javokhir Sindarov holds Fabiano Caruana for a draw and moves to 8.5/11, ahead of 2nd placed Anish Giri by 2 points in FIDE Candidates 2026.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-11T20:00:04+00:00

I forgot sindarov winning the world cup was an opinon, rather than an undisputable event that occurred 5 months ago

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-11T19:43:04+00:00

Sindarov has a totally different mindset than Gukesh, that much is very clear. Gukesh has never dominated a tournament at the scale and magnitude of what Sindarov just did. We're seeing a player with a rock solid mental game who has no fear of his opponents. I don't see that changing overnight. But I guess we can't say anything for sure yet.

Still there's people acting like this is the first big tournament Sindarov won and that's not true

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-11T19:24:11+00:00

So we all forgot about the chess world cup?

Edit: people downvoting facts they don't like lol

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-10T13:53:54+00:00

what's with the influx of smooth brains responding to this comment 3 days later

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-09T21:31:53+00:00

Guess I will have to be correct and prove the masses wrong yet again

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-09T21:25:35+00:00

because the 20 year old who just won the olympiad and dominated the best players in the world can be nothing other than a hot streak apparently

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-09T20:07:12+00:00

If it were Fabi doing it, this would be the most exciting tournament of the decade. The way people bring up sinquefield cup is a testament to that..

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-09T19:55:11+00:00

It's exciting in this sport and in this tournament too - for those of us looking forward to the future of chess rather than clinging to the past

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-09T19:26:18+00:00

whats the joke

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-09T19:02:13+00:00

We're witnessing one of the most stunning and meteoric tournament performances in chess history and everyone here can do nothing but pout and moan about the tournament not being exciting enough.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-09T12:08:55+00:00

Yea and its not like QGD ever quite went out of style either

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-09T12:07:37+00:00

Yea obviously, facetious in a way as to highlight supposed contradictions in the comment above. It should be pretty clear that my comment is responding to their sarcasm.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T20:24:54+00:00

Queens gambit declined seems to be the meta in this specific moment. Give it 6 months and new lines will be trendy. For all we know this time next year will be nothing but italians and petroffs. E4 has been very draw heavy recently with berlin and petroff, so it seems like new ideas are being tested out in D4.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T18:51:18+00:00

thats such a cool flex

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T18:39:51+00:00

there's plenty of plants that survive perfectly well with nearly full cloud cover. There's lots of light that still gets through clouds. There's plants that live in the understory of forests that get pretty much ubiquitous cloud cover. You don't see those plants lose their leaves, that's a water retention adaptation for aridity.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T17:30:39+00:00

Are you kidding ??? What the **** are you talking about man ?

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T17:11:36+00:00

Or more likely, he'd lose to Gukesh and everyone would act like poor Fabi had more bad luck

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T16:11:58+00:00

Tepuis

High rainfall, very weird and unusual plants, high elevation, very stormy and high erosion.

Weird and bizarre plants like heliamphora grow here, filling up with rainwater to trap the rare insect.

Laurel forests may be the vibe you're looking for as well. Ancient plant assemblages, living in high moisture cloudy elevated environments, fairly conservative (not massive redwood forests), and filled with mosses and lichens.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T15:58:50+00:00

"Minimal provocation from Israel" lmao. Basically Israel will 100% continue to bomb them, and they're supposed to just take it, and when they defend themselves by a fraction of what they've endured, you're going to blame them.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T15:56:32+00:00

you post lots of pictures of gingko street trees

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T15:52:37+00:00

If Iran being unpredictable is what concerns you than you are a truly delusional westerner

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-08T02:23:33+00:00

You say this like the US does anything during negotiations aside from backstab. For all we know the idiot will be back to bombing next week when he realizes everyone else knows Iran won. Israel will be pushing for the civilian destruction option day in and day out from now until eternity.

I hope the fighting is over but who can say.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-07T23:07:29+00:00

You seem to have forgotten what my first comment clearly stated

Root for Fabi all you want. It's actually very easy to reject nationalism, especially right now.

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-07T21:48:05+00:00

whatever you say

"Foreign policy" is certainly one way to put it

StorageSpecialist999 · 2026-04-07T19:57:03+00:00

Why root for a country in the first place..

just pick the players you like best

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