Altibox Norway Chess is a 6-player double round-robin taking place in Stavanger, Norway from 5-16 October. Every round consists of a classical game where a win is worth 3 points. If it’s a draw an armageddon is played where the win worths 1.5 points and the loss 1 point.
The classical time control is 2 hours, with a 10-second increment per move only after move 40. The white player keeps his color for the Armageddon.Time control Armageddon game: White has 10 minutes and Black has 7 minutes with an increment of 1 second per move, starting from move 41.
Participants:
Carlsen, Magnus
Caruana, Fabiano
Aronian, Levon
Duda, Jan-Krzysztof
Firouzja, Alireza
Tari, Aryan
Schedule:
All classical games start at 15:00 UTC and the Armageddons 20 mins after the classical is drawn.
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. a4 Bd7 9. c3 Na5 10. Ba2 c5 11. Bg5 O-O 12. Nbd2 Rb8 13. axb5 axb5 14. Re1 b4 15. Nc4 Nxc4 16. Bxc4 bxc3 17. bxc3 Qc7 18. Qc2 Bb5 19. Bxb5 Rxb5 20. Bxf6 Bxf6 21. Nd2 Qc6 22. Qa4 Rfb8 23. Nc4 Be7 24. g3 Qc8 25. Qd1 g6 26. Kg2 Bf8 27. Qf3 Rb3 28. Rec1 Qe6 29. Ra7 R8b7 30. Rxb7 Rxb7 31. Ra1 h5 32. Ra8 Kg7 33. Ne3 Rc7 34. Nd5 Rc8 35. Ra7 Rb8 36. h3 Rd8 37. g4 hxg4 38. hxg4 Rd7 39. Ra8 f6 40. g5 f5 41. Qh3 Rf7 42. Re8 Qxe8 43. Qh6+ Kg8 44. Qxg6+ Kh8 45. Nf6 1-0
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