US EditionIt Takes 67 Minutes to Think About a move... and He Loses His Game.
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67 minutes and 44 seconds, so he took Hikaru Nakamura's great master to execute 13th move from his game against the Javokhir Sindarov strike, in the fifth round of the 2026 candidacy tournament – the competition that determines the player who will have the right to face him on the World Championship.
It was the thirteenth play of the fifth round of the World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament. American Grand Master Hikaru Nakamura had agreed to sacrifice two pawns at first to gain an offensive advantage over his 20-year-old rival Sindarov, who responded with a cast.
In the part of the Candidates' Tournament that opposed him to Uzbek Javokhir Sindarov, the American Hikaru Nakamura took 67 minutes and 44 seconds before making his 13th shot. This is the second longest reflection time in the history of the competition.
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