Press release by FIDERising stars and top performers Faustino Oro, Andy Woodward, Abhimanyu Mishra and Volodar Murzin will join well-known GM Kirill Alekseenko at the FIDE World Cup this November in India. FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich has officially granted the invitations for this year's FIDE World Cup, which will take place in Goa from 30 October to 27 November. The World Cup will be a unique chance for these top talents to compete in one of the most prestigious tournaments on the chess calendar. The FIDE World Cup takes place every two years, lasts for three weeks, and is one of the hardest chess tournaments to win. It features 206 top world players competing in a knockout format consisting of mini-matches.