India, April 15 -- Javokhir Sindarov - fierce on the board, goofy off it, and all of 20 - is officially the World Championship challenger. He will play reigning world champion India's D Gukesh in the youngest-ever World Championship match in history, later this year.

The young Uzbek's win in Cyprus comes at the end of a fortnight of complete dominance, winning unbeaten, with the highest number of wins in a Candidates tournament in the current format. It's fair to say that this result seemed imminent barely halfway through the tournament.

The Barcelona fan and Counter-Strike junkie crushed the competition - like a fire-breathing, building-stomping Godzilla rampaging through Tokyo. Sindarov watched the rest of the field fumble, doubt them...