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 “2024.06.01”]
[Round “9.2”]
[White “Ding, Liren”]
[Black “Nakamura, Hikaru”]
[Result “*”]
[WhiteElo “2762”]
[BlackElo “2794”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “D06”]
[Opening “Queen’s Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Gusev Countergambit”]
[Termination “Unterminated”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c5 3. cxd5 Nf6 { D06 Queen’s Gambit Declined: Austrian Defense, Gusev Countergambit } 4. Nc3 Nxd5 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. Qxd4 Nxc3 7. Qxc3 Nc6 8. e4 a6 9. Be2 e5 10. a3 Bg4 11. O-O Rc8 12. Qb3 Na5 13. Qa4+ b5 14. Qd1 Qxd1 15. Rxd1 Nb3 16. Rb1 Bc5 17. Kf1 f6 18. Rd3 Be6 19. Nd2 Nd4 20. b4 Bb6 21. Bb2 Nxe2 22. Kxe2 Ke7 23. f3 Rc2 24. Rc3 Bc4+ 25. Ke1 Bf2+ 26. Kd1 Rxc3 27. Bxc3 Rd8 28. Ra1 Bf1 29. g3 Be3 30. a4 bxa4 31. Rxa4 Bb5 32. Ra1 Rd3 33. Rc1 h5 34. Kc2 Bxd2 35. Bxd2 Rxf3 36. Re1 Bc6 37. Re3 Rf2 38. h4 Ba4+ 39. Kc3 Ke6 40. Re1 Rg2 41. Re3 g6 42. Be1 Bb5 43. Kb3 Be2 44. Bc3 Rf2 45. Kc2 Bg4+ 46. Bd2 Be2 47. Bc3 Bf3+ 48. Kd3 Bg2 49. Re1 g5 50. Bd2 gxh4 51. gxh4 Bf1+ 52. Kc3 Be2 53. Be3 Rh2 54. Bc5 Bb5 *
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