Norway Chess - Live!

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6/7/2024 – The 12th edition of the Norway Chess super-tournament is taking place from May 27 to June 7 in Stavanger. An open event and a women’s event are being played concurrently with an identical number of players, the same format and an equivalent prize fund. Both world champions — Ju Wenjun and Ding Liren — are participating, besides world number one Magnus Carlsen. | Follow the games live starting at 17.00 CEST (11.00 ET, 20.30 IST)

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Round 10

The tournaments are 6-player double round-robins. Each confrontation consists of a classical game, and a potential Armageddon decider in case of a draw.

  • Time control - Classical: Each player gets 120 minutes on the clock for the whole game, with an increment of 10 seconds starting from move 41.
  • Time control - Armageddon: White gets 10 minutes and Black gets 7 minutes, with an increment for both players of 1 second per move starting from move 41.

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

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Live games and commentary

Open - Classical

Open - Armageddon

Women’s - Classical

Women’s - Armageddon

Commentary by David Howell, Anna Rudolf and Danny Rensch

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Starting Monday: Norway Chess introduces parallel women’s event

5/26/2024 – The 12th edition of the Norway Chess super-tournament will take place from May 27 to June 7 at SR-Bank’s main building in Stavanger. A noteworthy addition is the introduction of the world’s inaugural equal female tournament, the Norway Chess Women’s Tournament, with an identical number of players, the same format and an equivalent prize fund. Both world champions — Ju Wenjun and Ding Liren — will participate besides local hero and world number one Magnus Carlsen.
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Norway Chess introduces parallel women’s tournament

1/21/2024 – The organisers in Stavanger have announced the participants of the upcoming Norway Chess Tournament. As a novelty, a women’s tournament will now be organised in parallel under the same conditions as the open event from 27 May to 7 June. Each tournament will feature six players, with both world champions included — Ju Wenjun and Ding Liren — besides local hero and world number one Magnus Carlsen.
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The setup for White recommended by Valeri Lilov is solid and easy to play – the thematic moves are almost always the same ones: Nge2, 0-0, Bg5 (or Be3), Nd5, Qd2. Later, according to Black’s setup, things continue with f4 or even Rac1, b4 and play on the queenside. Starting with the classic Botvinnik-Spassky, Leiden 1970, the author describes this universally employable setup in 7 videos (+ intro and conclusion).