{"id":106208,"date":"2026-04-27T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/no-indian-yet-in-esports-chess-world-cup-2026-how-can-it-change\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:35:56","slug":"no-indian-yet-in-esports-chess-world-cup-2026-how-can-it-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/no-indian-yet-in-esports-chess-world-cup-2026-how-can-it-change\/","title":{"rendered":"No Indian yet in Esports Chess World Cup 2026: How can it change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magnus Carlsen won the Chess.com Open, while Denis Lazavik beat Nihal Sarin, leaving no Indian qualified yet for the Esports World Cup 2026, as of yet. Extra qualification spots don\u2019t pass down, increasing pressure on Sarin. He remains India\u2019s one of the besthopes, with chances through circuit rankings and qualifiers in the evolving esports chess format.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnus Carlsen won the Chess.com Open, while Denis Lazavik beat Nihal Sarin, leaving no Indian qualified yet for the Esports World Cup 2026, as of yet. Extra qualification spots don\u2019t pass down, increasing pressure on Sarin. He remains India\u2019s one of the besthopes, with chances through circuit rankings and qualifiers in the evolving esports chess&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/no-indian-yet-in-esports-chess-world-cup-2026-how-can-it-change\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Indian yet in Esports Chess World Cup 2026: How can it change?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":106209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}