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 “2024.06.06”]
[Round “18.1”]
[White “Firouzja, Alireza”]
[Black “Carlsen, Magnus”]
[Result “*”]
[WhiteElo “2737”]
[BlackElo “2830”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “C50”]
[Opening “Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Normal”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 { C50 Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo, Normal } 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 d6 7. c3 a6 8. Nbd2 Ba7 9. O-O Qe7 10. b4 Be6 11. a4 O-O 12. Bd5 g5 13. Nxg5 Nxd5 14. Nxe6 Qxh4 15. exd5 fxe6 16. g3 Qh3 17. dxc6 bxc6 18. Qe2 Rf5 19. Kh1 Raf8 20. f3 Rg5 21. Qg2 Qf5 22. Rad1 h5 23. Nb3 h4 24. g4 Qh7 25. Qe2 h3 26. d4 exd4 27. cxd4 e5 28. Na5 Bxd4 29. Nxc6 Qf7 30. Rc1 Rg6 31. Qxa6 Rf6 32. Qe2 Rxf3 33. Rxf3 Qxf3+ 34. Qxf3 Rxf3 35. Nxd4 exd4 36. Ra1 Rb3 37. a5 Rxb4 38. a6 Rb8 39. a7 Ra8 40. Kg1 c5 41. Kf2 Kf7 42. Ke2 c4 43. Ra5 d3+ 44. Kd2 Kg6 45. Kc3 d5 46. Ra2 Kg5 *