The Norway Chess 2024 is a 6-player double round-robin tournament, held from the 27th of May to the 7th of June in Stavanger, Norway, featuring the former and current World Champions Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, R Praggnanandhaa and Alireza Firouzja.
Time control is 120 minutes for the entire game with a 10-second increment from move 41.
Mutually agreed draws are not allowed until both players have made at least 30 moves.
In the event of a draw, an Armageddon game is played to determine the winner of the round. Players keep the colour from the classical game. Time control is 10 minutes for White and 7 minutes for Black with a 1-second increment from move 41.
PGN OF THE GAME:
[Event “Norway Chess”]
[Site “Stavanger, Norway”]
[Date “2024.06.03”]
[Round “14.1”]
[White “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
[Black “Carlsen, Magnus”]
[Result “*”]
[WhiteElo “2794”]
[BlackElo “2830”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “D35”]
[Opening “Queen’s Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 { D35 Queen’s Gambit Declined: Exchange Variation, Positional Variation } Be7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 Bg4 8. f3 Be6 9. Bd3 c5 10. Nge2 Nc6 11. O-O O-O 12. Re1 Re8 13. Bc2 Rc8 14. Nf4 cxd4 15. Nxe6 fxe6 16. exd4 Nxd4 17. Bg6 Rf8 18. Bf2 Nc6 19. Rxe6 d4 20. Ne2 Bc5 21. Nf4 Nd5 22. Qb3 Nxf4 23. Rd6+ Kh8 24. Rxd8 Rcxd8 25. Qxb7 Ne5 26. Be4 Bb6 27. a4 Nc4 28. Qa6 Nd2 29. a5 Bc5 30. Bb7 Nb3 31. Rd1 d3 32. Bxc5 Nxc5 33. Qxa7 Nxb7 34. Qxb7 Rfe8 35. g3 d2 36. Qb4 Rd4 37. Qxd2 Rxd2 38. Rxd2 Ne6 39. b4 Kg8 40. b5 Ra8 41. Ra2 Kf7 42. Kf2 Ke7 43. b6 Nc5 44. Ke3 Kd6 45. Kf4 g6 46. h4 Kd5 47. Kg4 Kc6 48. h5 Rg8 49. Rc2 Kb5 50. hxg6 Rxg6+ 51. Kh5 *
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