Samunenkov and Gurel receive wild cards for FIDE Grand Swiss 2023

The world’s strongest Swiss-system chess event, the FIDE Grand Swiss, is set to be played on the Isle of Man from October 23 to November 6, 2023. At the end of July, FIDE announced that 100 players had already confirmed their participation in the Grand Swiss and 40 players in the Women’s Grand Swiss. However, wild cards are still being distributed, and it was just announced that two of them will go to the exceptional young talents, IMs Ihor Samunenkov from Ukraine and Ediz Gurel (pictured) from Turkey. | Photo: Lennart Ootes

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