
On the evening of 16 April, the Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort on the west coast of Cyprus hosted the closing ceremony of the FIDE Candidates Tournament for the world chess crown. The winners were 20-year-old Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan) and 24-year-old Vaishali Rameshbabu (India). The tournament’s prize fund of one million euros was provided by the Freedom Holding Corp. and Scheinberg family. Speeches were interspersed with Cypriot folk dances,






