Javokhir Sindarov Sole Leader After Beating Fabiano Caruana | Round 4 | Candidates 2026

You did something quite impressive today. You out-prepared Fabiano and won. How does it feel to out-prepare someone like Fabiano who is famous for the depth and strength of his preparation? Yes, I think yesterday we worked very good with my second and we prepared very well and I checked every line which he can play and I feel like before a game, I mean today, I feel like he can play a TGA so I think like I need to repeat the line and before I go the round I really repeat this line and it's also I was lucky to get this and I know the line until move 16 and yeah everything was fantastic. I mean it was such an exciting game as well that you played. I mean you know you had this like was that part of your preparation or something you figured out over the board? No, it was my preparation. If I think about this move, probably I will spend minimum like 20 minutes but I played so quickly. And you know we're quite surprised to see f5 then by Fabio as well. This was still kind of in your preparation. No, no, no. After Rook g8, I forgot like I think about a lot Bishop e4 but in final I remember like even if you take Queen d4 in some position, I need to play g3 f3 so I was thinking like to Rook g8, g3 also cannot be bad and also h7 pawn is hanging so I was thinking like okay I'm in little bit advantage but after when he plays f5, I realized like I'm already very good like after Bishop c4 it should be big advantage and yeah. Yesterday you had a beautiful game against Prague. Today you had a beautiful game against Fabi. I said yesterday would that one make your 60 most memorable games. Do you think this one might make your 60 most memorable games? Yeah, maybe this game should be one with better content because I think I just played very well and in all critical moments I find best moves in my game. And also yesterday you know you mentioned you're just going to play very solid chess. I mean like this game beautiful. I don't know if it was solid like it was so dynamic there were so many risks they couldn't. Isn't it? Today like if this is your version of solid I want to see what your version of risky is. It's like I mean if he my idea was play solid but of course after he maybe forgot his lines and I think like I need to take some pressure and I mean I'm playing his white yeah I need to do some pressure and of course if he play very well it should be drawn but but I was lucky to get like 60 moves with my preparation and big time advantage. At the same time you know whilst you have a phenomenal start to this version of the candidates is there something in the back of your mind also suggesting that you know you have had two whites already in the tournament against the two lowest seeds so there's still chances maybe of the field catching up? No really I don't think about this a lot. I was just playing chess and have to say walking in the tournament hall too much. That's all I was thinking during the game. Perfect well Javakis and Daurov solely three and a half out of four. Congratulations thank you so much for the interview and best of luck the rest of the tournament. Enjoy the rest. Thank you.