Norway chess 2025 gukesh magnus carlsen
Norway chess 2025 gukesh magnus carlsen The 2025 Norway Chess super-tournament in Stavanger delivered one of the most exciting storylines in recent chess history: the established legend Magnus Carlsen against the 19-year-old prodigy Dommaraju “Gukesh” . This annual event has “established itself as one of the world’s most prestigious chess tournaments, annually gathering the top global players”. Launched in 2013, Norway Chess brings together elite grandmasters in a high-stakes double round-robin format – with a twist: drawn games go to Armageddon tiebreaks for decisive results. In 2025, it again ran alongside an equal-prize Norway Chess Women event, underscoring Norway’s commitment to gender equity in chess. In 2025, the field included World Champion Gukesh , World No.1 Carlsen , and other super-GMs like Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi, and Wei Yi. The tournament unfolded from May 26 to June 6 in Stavanger. Chess fans buzzed about the anticipated Carlsen–Gukesh mat...