Norway Chess Blitz 2023 | ft. Gukesh, Carlsen, Giri, Nakamura | Live commentary by Sagar and Amruta

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The Norway Chess 2023 kicks off on Gukesh’s 17th birthday. The tournament begins with a blitz tournament on 29th of May and then is a classical round robin event.

These are the rules:
Each of the 9 rounds consists of a classical game where a win is worth 2 points and a loss 0. If the players draw they play an Armageddon game, where the winner earns 1.5 points and the loser 1 point. No draw offers are allowed before move 30.

The classical time control is 2 hours for all moves, with a 10-second increment per move only after move 40. For Armageddon White (the same player who had White in the classical game) has 10 minutes to Black’s 7, with a 1-second increment from move 41. Black wins if the game ends in a draw. A tie for 1st place will be decided by two 3+2 blitz games followed, if necessary, by a 5 vs. 4-minute Armageddon game.

Players:
Magnus Carlsen
D. Gukesh
Fabiano Caruana
Anish Giri
Hikaru Nakamura
Alireza Firouzja
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Wesley So
Aryan Tari

These are pairings of the first round of the Blitz tournament today:
Giri-Carlsen
Firouzja-Tari
Gukesh-Caruana
So-Nakamura
Mamedyarov-Abdusattorov

Video: ChessBase India

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