Sindarov's unbelievably crazy QUEEN SACRIFICE!!

Welcome everyone to the Chess Olympiad 2026. We see the Uzbek team arriving in their buggy here with the captain of the team, the former FIDE World Champion Rustam Kazimdzhanov, and the World Championship challenger Jaukir Sindarov takes 4 today. Sindarov did not play the first round, he's playing in the second round. And this game is absolutely epic that you are about to see now. You can see the team getting in with Mukhaddin Madaminov, his trusted second there. And Javokhir is always zoned in, you know. He looks fresh, he looks happy, but at the same time he looks very focused. And there you see the top board, Nodirbek Abdusattorov. A very interesting decision made by the Uzbek team to give the top board to Nodirbek in spite of the fact that Javokhir's FIDE rating is right now higher than that of Nodirbek. But maybe they just made a choice that, you know, Nodirbek has more experience on board 1 and Javokhir can hit heavily on board 2. Whatever it is, let's see if that works out for them during this event. Their opponents for For today have arrived. It's the team of Peru, and on board number two we have Flores, Cuilas, Diego, Sol, Rodri. Let's begin the game. Pawn to e four by Flores, and Javokir goes for the Sicilian. Well, we've cut this angle from the camera of Nodirbek Abdusattorov, so you might see Nodirbek and his opponent sometimes coming in the frame. But we hope that the game quality is something that you will enjoy. Pawn to b3 played here by Flores, does not play the Open Sicilian, and Javokhir goes b6. He knows his stuff here. Bishop comes out to b2 on this super long diagonal, and black goes bishop to b7, attacking the pawn on e4. The best move is knight to c3, defending here, and now later you may want to play d4 to open up the position. Sinderov goes knight c6, and I pretty much think d4 is a nice move. Takes, takes, should be a small edge out of the opening. But Flores plays g3 here, and he's going for the double fianchetto. Knight comes out to f6. If you play e5, I'll go knight g4 and then d6 to break the pawn. So bishop g2 makes sense, and Javokir finishes his development with bishop e7. White castles and black castles as well. Be interesting to see how the game continues as both sides have developed their pieces. d4, I like this move actually. It's a good move played here by Flores, and Javokhir must take the pawn. He takes. Pawn takes pawn. And now knight takes pawn, taken. Goes knight takes d4 and queen takes d4, taken. And now black has some questions to answer. Do you want to put your pawn on d6? Do you want to try for d5? What is it that you want to do? You want to keep your pawn on d7. For now, Javakhir goes queen to c7. He just connects the rooks, puts the queen on the semi-open file. e5 played here, a very interesting move, and Javakhir takes on g2. Now, very important, if you take here, it seems like you're winning, but bishop f6 hits the queen. So there's no time here. King takes g2, knight goes back to e8, and knight to e4 played. The knight is looking at these important squares. Does Chaukhier go and snatch the pawn? It might look a bit too risky, I feel. So he goes queen c6. Pinning here, maybe preparing a move like f5. Kg1 makes a lot of sense to get the king out of there. He plays f3, and this time he's ready to give up the pawn with a check. Now, it's a bit surprising, and Sinderov is like, thank you so much. This is one of the traits of good players. The pawn might feel a bit too, you know, taking it you may lose tempi, but he's calculated it that it actually works. And if it works, then why not do it? Queen to c6 with the idea of putting the rook on c1. Now rook to c1 and the queen will calmly go to b7. If you look at the position carefully, you will see that black is pawn up, but white has very active pieces. So you're hoping for counterplay, but Jaukhier is preparing for this d6 break, and he's doing it very seriously here. He goes knight to d6. Very interesting decision because you can take here with the knight or the bishop. Taking with the knight doesn't seem right. It hits the bishop. Maybe bishop f6 comes in. It's possible. He goes queen a6. He completely ignores it and moves his queen away, keeping an eye on this diagonal and also on the pawn on a2. A4 pushed, and now Javakhir plays Bishop to g5, kind of provoking f4. He does play f4 here. Flores has played quite well to keep the balance in the position. He's doing decently well. The bishop comes back to e7, questioning the knight on d6 whether you want to remain there or do something else. A good idea now is to trade queens with queen c4 because kind of the queen is running out of squares, but he goes king h3. Feeling that the king would be much safer here than on this diagonal and on the second rank, which makes sense in a way. But Zhao Qian now takes on d6. Pawn takes, bishop comes out to f6. And queen to e4. It might feel like black is now fighting back. White is losing their compensation. Bishop b2, rook b2, and now rook to c8 played. I think you have to fight for the c-file, but rook c7 is a bit too dangerous because you are allowing Queen f1 check. Now this is something you don't want to do. Maybe Rook bc2 was the better move, but check by Javokhir. King can go up, but he decides to pin his own rook with Rook g2. And you can see Javokhir now starting to feel like, wow, There is something brewing in the position. I can have a mate here. And by the way, Flores has 5 minutes and he— Pushes f5, a lovely move, very lovely move by the way, because he's preparing Rook f6 to h6 mate. Queen comes to c2, putting pressure on the rook. I think rook d8 makes sense. Don't indulge in that rook because if you take, then pawn takes. Suddenly the pawn is about to queen. Yeah, he plays rook d8, a nice move there. And now queen e2. See, if you trade queens here White is completely back in the game. You can't easily trade queens. But look at this, look at Jawahir. He brings his rook up. Wow! Sacrificing his queen. Insane! Gets up from the board. If queen takes f1, rook h6 mate. Nothing less. King h4 played. Where is the mate? Can Javokir spot it? Can he see the mate happening here? Eleven minutes for Javokir, two minutes for his opponent. He plays rook h six in thirty seconds. King g five. And now you can move the queen away to checkmate here. But king f seven is. Beautiful move, absolutely beautiful. Queen takes f1, sacrificing the queen. And now the only move here to win the game. You can see Rustam Kazimjanov coming in. Rook h3, threatening h6 forced mate. There's no way to stop it. What a beautiful finish we are witnessing here. Stunning resignation here by Flores. And Javokhir Sindarov wins with an insane queen sacrifice. I think a position that we will surely put in Chess Ranga. You can check it out there. Wow, it is an incredible game by Javokhir, and the way he's playing chess is truly amazing. We leave you some moments after the game where he interacted with the fans to give you a feel of how popular Javokhir is in In Uzbekistan.

Go, go, go! माजी ले लो, माजी ले लीजिए। ये वो खोजो बिटर, पैसों को छेड़ी। क्या बात? क्या प्रकार का मार्ग? क्या प्रकार का मार्ग?

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चलो सेंसिटिव। Thank you. Yeah yeah go ahead go ahead. Yeah thank you. Excuse me, can I take photo of you? Thank you so much. Thank you. How happy are you?

How happy are you after winning your first game?

Thank you. Thank you.