From 25th October to 8th November WA Grandmaster Temur Kuybokarov will be playing in the FIDE.Chess.com Grand Swiss chess tournament in Riga, Latvia.
This will be the toughest challenge of his chess career.
He will be competing against 113 Grandmasters including 19 +2700 rated Grandmasters (including Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk and Hikaru Nakamura).
It has not been easy to get permission for Temur to play in this competition.
Firstly he was only granted a wild card entry after representations by Gary Wastell (ACF President) and Leonid Sandler, (ACF Councillor).
Secondly getting permission from Australian border control to leave and return to Australia was not a routine exercise.
It was only on the second application attempt which included a letter of support from the FIDE President, Arkady Dvorkovich, that permission was granted.
Temur's costs for accommodation and entry fee are covered by the organisers but his travel costs are not. These are estimated at over $2,000.
A Fund raising platform has been set up at Trybooking:
https://www.trybooking.com/au/donate/helptemur
If you wish to make a financial donation to help Temur please use the above link.
CAWA President Alan Wolstencroft
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