Uzbek chess grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov wins the 2025 World Cup in Goa, India, at the age of 19, becoming the youngest player to win the event.

The development was among the significant sport stories being followed from World. Contemporary coverage attributed the principal details to FIDE on 26 November 2025.

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