In a flurry of posts on Friday and Saturday, the man charged with organizing all FIDE's big events started his big reveal about who's getting sought-after special invites for the upcoming World Cup.

On his personal X account, Sutovsky said teenage GMs Abhimanyu Mishra and Andy Woodward are in, and so are World Rapid champ GM Volodar Murzin, GM Kirill Alekseenko and 11-year-old IM Faustino Oro.

All five are the lucky recipients of wild cars for the huge 206-player event which kicks off in Goa on November 1, according to Sutovsky.

One more name will follow, but the FIDE exec isn't revealing who yet. It'll happen within the next two weeks, he says.

Sutovsky justified Murzin's inclusion by calling him "one of the top players of his brilliant generation." The 19-year-old Russian will play under the FIDE flag, as is usual.

On Oro, Sutovsky called him "an 11-year-old prodigy, who keeps progressing fast, almost reaching a GM-level at such a young age."

And Alekseenko, "we found it fair to award him with a wild-card" because he could not make it to the Grand Swiss in Samarkand, "due to the circumstances beyond his control."

Alekseenko, who has represented Austria since July 2023, is also the highest-rated of the awardees with 2674.

On Friday, Sutovsky revealed two youngsters, 16-year-old Mishra and 15-year-old Woodward, also received wild cards.

Both are prodigies currently pulling up trees. In 2021, Mishra famously broke the age record to become the world's youngest grandmaster at 12 years, four months, and 25 days.

Earlier this month he broke another record becoming the youngest to defeat a reigning World Chess Champion in a classical over-the-board game. He beat India’s GM Gukesh D in Round 5 of the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss tournament.

Mishra is on a hot streak right now and during the event also extended his unbeaten run in classical chess to 67 games.

Mishra and Woodward performed incredibly well at the Grand Swiss finishing on 7/11 and in 5th and 7th places respectively.

Keep the updates coming, Sutovsky. This is exciting stuff.