Norway Chess 2025: Full schedule, format, players, prize money, timings

Norway Chess 2025: Full schedule, format, players, prize money, timings

The 13th edition of the Norway Chess Tournament will get underway in Stavanger on Monday.

The opening day will witness the exciting clash between reigning world champion D Gukesh and world number one Magnus Carlsen, who is the defending champion of the competition.

The high-profile classical chess event will happen in a double round-robin format, with six players each in the open and women’s category.

The tournament will continue to abide by the Armageddon tiebreak system. If a game is drawn, an Armageddon game will be played, starting within 20 minutes of the conclusion of the classical game. The player with white pieces will continue with white in Armageddon. If the Armageddon game is drawn, black will win.

Here is all you need to know about Norway Chess 2025:

Magnus Carlsen (Norway)

Fabiano Caruana (USA)

Hikaru Nakamura (USA)

Arjun Erigaisi (India)

Gukesh D (India)

Wei Yi (China)

Ju Wenjun (China)

Lei Tingjie (China)

Humpy Koneru (India)

Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine)

Vaishali Rameshbabu (India)

Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Spain)

Norway Chess 2025 has a total prize pool of 1,690,000 NOK, which is approximately $148,000.

Published on May 26, 2025