♦ Javokhir Sindarov (19 years) of Uzbekistan won the FIDE Chess World Cup on 26 November 2025, beating China's Wei Yi in the final in the tie-breaker round. He also became the youngest champion in World Cup history and has qualified for the Candidates, too. 

♦ Javokhir became a grandmaster at the age of 12, was seeded sixteenth in the World Cup which saw top seeds fall like nine pins before the knockouts. He is the third teenager to clinch a major title in the chess world in the past year, with Gukesh winning the World Championship last year and Divya Deshmukh winning the Women’s Chess World Cup earlier this year.