19-year-old GM Javokhir Sindarov is yet another member of the new generation of very strong Uzbek chess players. He became a grandmaster in 2018, at the age of 12.
He was part of the Uzbek team that won the 2022 Chess Olympiad team competition, scoring 6½ points in 10 games on board 3. In 2023, he only lost one game in the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament, scoring 7 points in 11 rounds.
In the 2024-2025 German Bundesliga, he has so far scored 8 points in 9 games, after winning his first six games.
He is participating in the Tepe Sigeman Chess Tournament for the first time.