Norway Chess 2025 featuring Carlsen, Hikaru, Gukesh, Arjun, Humpy, Vaishali and World's Best starts today
The 13th edition of Norway Chess starts today, Monday 26th May 2025. It will go on till Friday 6th June. For the second year in-a-row, there will be a Women's tournament with an equal number of players, rounds, same format at the same playing hall. The six-player double round-robin, world's strongest tournament will be played in both Open and Women's event. Each draw will be resolved by Armaggedon. Both reigning World Champions - D Gukesh and Wenjun Ju (CHN) will be seen in action along with World no.1 - Magnus Carlsen. The remaining players are: Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, Fabiano Caruana and Wei Yi in the Open. Tingjie Lei, Koneru Humpy, Anna Muzychuk, R Vaishali and Sara Khadem. Round 1 starts today from 5 p.m. CET, 8:30 p.m. IST. Apart from youtube, there will be live broadcast on Sony Liv. Photo: Norway Chess / Michal Walusza
Carlsen vs Gukesh in Round 1
The first round will witness the highly anticipated match between the reigning World Champion - D Gukesh and World no.1 - Magnus Carlsen (NOR). This will be the first time these two will square off in a Classical rated game ever since Gukesh became the 18th World Champion in last December.
Round 1 pairings
Open
Wei Yi (CHN) - Arjun Erigaisi
Fabiano Caruana (USA) - Hikaru Nakamura (USA)
Magnus Carlsen (NOR) - D Gukesh
Women
GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR) - IM Sara Khadem (ESP)
GM Koneru Humpy - GM R Vaishali
GM Tingjie Lei (CHN) - GM Wenjun Ju (CHN)
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Format
6 players will take part in the Tournament.
The Tournament is a double-round event with Armageddon.
The Tournament consists of 10 rounds.
Berger tables will be used for the pairings.
Time Control
Each player will have 120 minutes on the clock with an increment of 10 seconds starting from move 41. The time control for the Armageddon game: white has 10 minutes and black has 7 minutes with an increment for both players of 1 second per move, starting from move 41.
Draw by Mutual Agreement
Players are not allowed to agree to a draw until at least 30 moves have been made by each player. This rule does not apply to Armageddon games.
Armageddon
If the classical game is drawn, an Armageddon game will be played. It shall start within 20 minutes of the conclusion of the classical game. The player with White pieces will continue with White in Armageddon. If the Armageddon game is drawn, black will win.
Points
Players will get the following points per round:
Win in the classical game: 3 points
Loss in the classical game: 0 points
Draw in the classical game & win Armageddon: 1½ points
Draw in the classical game & loss Armageddon: 1 point
Schedule
From 26th May to 6th June, every day game starts at 5 p.m. local time and 8:30 p.m. IST. Rest days are on Friday 30th May and Wednesday 4th June.
Prize money
Prize Money The total prize fund of the Tournament is 1690000 NOK. Distribution of Prize money occurs as followed:
1st - NOK 700000
2nd - NOK 350000
3rd - NOK 200000
4th - NOK 170000
5th - NOK 150000
6th - NOK 120000
Watch the tournaments live at the venue:
Venue: Finansparken. For ticket info, visit here.
Ticket prices per day:
Adults: 200 NOK
Children and youth (under 18): 100 NOK
Family: 400 NOK
Links
Norway Chess: Official site, facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, linkedin
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Norway Chess Women R1: Humpy gets the better of Vaishali
@ 27/05/2025 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Norway Chess R1: Arjun Erigaisi wins Armageddon against Wei Yi
@ 27/05/2025 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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गुकेश और कार्लसन मुक़ाबला थोड़ी देर में ! नॉर्वे शतरंज का होगा आगाज
@ 26/05/2025 by Niklesh Jain (hi) |