Norway Chess Blitz 2023 29 May 2023. Stavanger, Norway
Tournament info
Norway Chess is a 10-player round-robin featuring Top 5 stars Magnus Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja and Hikaru Nakamura and is taking place from 30 May to 9 June 2023 in Stavanger, Norway.
Each of the 9 rounds consists of a classical game where a win is worth 2 points and a loss 0.
If the players draw they play an Armageddon game, where the winner earns 1.5 points and the loser 1 point.
No draw offers are allowed before move 30.
The 3+2 blitz opener takes place on Monday 29th and will give the winners the chance to pick their pairing numbers for the main event.
The classical time control is 2 hours for all moves, with a 10-second increment per move only after move 40.
For Armageddon White (the same player who had White in the classical game) has 10 minutes to Black's 7, with a 1-second increment from move 41.
Black wins if the game ends in a draw. A tie for 1st place will be decided by two 3+2 blitz games followed, if necessary, by a 5 vs. 4-minute Armageddon game.
GM Firouzja, Alireza (2785) 
GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2738) 
GM So, Wesley (2760) 
GM Carlsen, Magnus (2853) 
GM Giri, Anish (2768) 
