Norway Chess all the time charms the 12 months as some of the compelling occasions to look out for, and 2024 is not any completely different. 5-time winner and world number-one GM Magnus Carlsen, final 12 months’s winner GM Hikaru Nakamura, and the seventeenth World Champion GM Ding Liren elevate the stakes.

This prestigious occasion has added options such because the Girls’s Event the place the prize fund shall be MATCHED with the Open part. Moreover, the “facet occasion” is a world-record-breaking blitz match that may actually maintain us on the fringe of our seats from dawn to sundown. Every thing shall be lined dwell by Chess24’s YouTube channel.

Let’s dive in.

Format!

In its twelfth version, Norway Chess is a six participant double round-robin identified for its format’s thrilling selection. The scoring, distinctive as ever, conjures up motivated gameplay from the contributors. 

Classical attracts will not be sufficient to coast towards the end-zone. Armageddon matches decide as soon as and for all who wins a given showdown. In the event that they make a draw within the classical recreation, price one level, gamers are instantly tasked with duking it out over the board in speedy style. Ten minutes for the participant with White, and 7 minutes for Black and draw-odds. The one that wins this match receives one other treasured half-point. These definitive tiebreakers have had an amazing affect on the event’s winner, as now we have seen in previous editions.

In 2023, Nakamura trailed Fabiano Caruana by 2.5 factors within the closing spherical the place Nakamura accrued three armageddon wins whereas Caruana received solely two. Had Caruana received a further armageddon, he would’ve had extra possibilities for the title even when he misplaced. However as historical past has proven, Caruana couldn’t salvage the draw whereas Nakamura crashed by means of to get the classical win he wanted for sole first place. 

Schedule and Gamers!

With this immaculate roster, it is arduous to guess a “favourite.” However Magnus Carlsen is almost definitely seeking to reclaim the crown on his house turf regardless of it being his first classical (non-960) event this 12 months since skipping Tata Metal! GM Praggnanandhaa and GM Alireza Firouzja, confirmed contributors in Candidates Event in April, may need some unused concepts in retailer from house preparation.

We all know Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and newly topped World Champion Ding Liren are the highlights however Norway Chess did not cease there…

Norway Chess Girls’s Event, The New Addition

What makes this occasion much more spectacular is the truth that, for the primary time, Norway Chess may even function a Girls’s Event with a area led by present World Champion GM Jun Wenjun and final 12 months’s challenger to the thrown, GM Lei Tingjie! GM Anna Muzychuk, a World Speedy and Blitz Champion is not going to be one to gloss over if the armageddon matches are reached. GM Koneru Humpy simply missed out on the Girls’s World Speedy crown final 12 months, 2023, however I believe this record of quick-minded gamers exhibits that the armageddons will certainly be full of fireside. To not point out the fifth lady ever to attain the Grandmaster title, Pia Cramling. The Girls’s Event will include the strongest women on the chess world’s leaderboard. 

Simply take a look at this lineup of established and up-and-coming gamers: BBB

The recent factor, nevertheless, is the equity being displayed OFF the board. Norway Chess are matching the prize fund for each the Open and Girls’s event respectively. You may learn NM and Occasions Correspondent Vanessa West final 12 months’s report about Norway Chess’ 2023 announcement on their anticipated addition. Of their most up-to-date press launch, the organizers acknowledge that “The shortage of ladies in top-level privately held competitions is a fancy subject, with restricted invites and unequal prize cash being contributing components.” Up-and-coming phenoms like GM Vaishali Rameshbabu are clearly making magnificent strides within the chess world. This initiative by occasion organizers will be the turning level for a lot of younger girls and ladies and “…function an inspiration for younger feminine chess gamers to pursue knowledgeable profession.” as acknowledged by Norway Chess’ Benedicte Westre Skog & Kjell Madland. This transfer hopefully is not going to solely set a precedent, however set a norm.

Our aspiration is for the event to function an inspiration for younger feminine chess gamers to pursue knowledgeable profession.

Guinness World File Try For The Longest Blitz Match

What do Usain Bolt, Beyonce, and Magnus Carlsen all have in frequent? They know that information are made to be damaged. Two brave chess gamers shall be current on the legendary Norway Chess website hoping so as to add their names within the historical past books by enjoying a report 60 hours of chess! 

How lengthy can the mind blitz by means of limitless endgames? 

Askild Bryn and Odin Blikra Vea will take Kasparov’s debut title “The Take a look at of Time” to coronary heart as they play practically continuous for 60 hours. They’re allowed 5 minutes of relaxation after each hour of play but additionally have the likelihood so as to add relaxation relying on their play’s length. As in, blitzing for 4 hours would enable them to build up 20 minutes of rests, and so forth. Again to again, they’re going to bolt by means of video games like Usain, betting their melatonin on breaking the report that was beforehand set at 56 hours! We have seen makes an attempt like this earlier than.

• “You Will not Break My…” Sleep Schedule 

Deliver out the popcorn and maintain it coming. Beginning on June 2, 10 am (CEST) to June 4 10 pm (CEST) we’ll comply with Askild and Odin on an odyssey of blitz. The time management is 5 min/G. Every recreation shall be displayed on knowledgeable DGT board and we would possibly have the ability to learn by means of Beyonce’s in depth resume by the point they conclude the match! Here is a chunk on chess-related world information!

Watch the blitz marathon on Chess24 and observe how two people bear by means of fatigue. Will they make it by means of the waking hours? Will they endure two and a half days of psychological play? 

Mark your calendars for Could 28 and prepare for a collection of occasions you will not have the ability to overlook. 

SKOL!