Alireza Firouzja discussed his ankle injury, recovery, and strong connection with Indian chess fans during an exclusive interview. He praised Indian crowds and tandoori chicken, assessed Gukesh-Sindarov\u2019s upcoming World Championship match as close, and reflected on the difficulty of reaching the Candidates. The 23-year-old is fully recovered and will next compete in Budapest\u2019s Total Chess Championship in November 2026.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alireza Firouzja discussed his ankle injury, recovery, and strong connection with Indian chess fans during an exclusive interview. He praised Indian crowds and tandoori chicken, assessed Gukesh-Sindarov\u2019s upcoming World Championship match as close, and reflected on the difficulty of reaching the Candidates. The 23-year-old is fully recovered and will next compete in Budapest\u2019s Total Chess… Read More »‘Indians very interested in what we do’: Firouzja, youngest to beat Carlsen’s record<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":133829,"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\/133828"}],"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=133828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}