{"id":131775,"date":"2026-09-02T03:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/chess-diplomacy-aicf-chief-on-pm-modi-gifting-sindarovs-wc-sheet-to-uzbek-prez\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T03:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:35:53","slug":"chess-diplomacy-aicf-chief-on-pm-modi-gifting-sindarovs-wc-sheet-to-uzbek-prez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/chess-diplomacy-aicf-chief-on-pm-modi-gifting-sindarovs-wc-sheet-to-uzbek-prez\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chess diplomacy&#8217;: AICF chief on PM Modi gifting Sindarov\u2019s WC sheet to Uzbek prez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev the original scoresheet from Javokhir Sindarov\u2019s 2025 World Cup final victory in Goa. AICF chief Nitin Narang called it \u201cChess diplomacy\u201d. Sindarov later won the Candidates tournament and will face D Gukesh. The gesture highlights growing India-Uzbekistan chess rivalry ahead of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev the original scoresheet from Javokhir Sindarov\u2019s 2025 World Cup final victory in Goa. AICF chief Nitin Narang called it \u201cChess diplomacy\u201d. Sindarov later won the Candidates tournament and will face D Gukesh. The gesture highlights growing India-Uzbekistan chess rivalry ahead of the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":131776,"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\/131775"}],"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=131775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}