Norway Chess 2013 [English]

Quiz winners round 7, 8 and 9

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Sun, 19 May 2013 17:30:45 +0000

The winners of the quiz the last three rounds was:

Round 7: Kürşat Karataş from İstanbul Turkey
Round 8: Mark Schneider from Los Altos Hills, USA
Round 9: Anders Ostergaard from Skorping, Denmark

See the questions here

Congratulations to all of the winners! Hope you will enjoy the magasine! And thank you for following the live commentary of Norway Chess!

Karjakin wins Norway Chess 2013

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:16:44 +0000

Sergey Karjakin has just won Norway Chess 2013 after a draw against Veselin Topalov.

Results round 9:

ARONIAN Levon	½ -½	CARLSEN Magnus
WANG Hao	1-0	ANAND Viswanathan
HAMMER Jon Ludvig	0-1	NAKAMURA Hikaru
RADJABOV Teimour	½ -½	SVIDLER Peter
KARJAKIN Sergey	½ -½	TOPALOV Veselin

Round report by Hans Arild Runde will follow.

Tie-break rules

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:33:32 +0000

In case more players tie for first with an equal number of points a blitz match will decide who wins the tournament. The blitz match will consist of 2 games with 4 minutes + 2 seconds (per move) per player.

If it´s still tied an Armageddon game will decide the outcome. In the Armageddon game the player with the white pieces will have 5 minutes + 2 seconds (per move) while the player with black pieces will have 4 minutes + 2 seconds. If the game ends as a draw Black wins.

Results round 8

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:24:45 +0000

CARLSEN Magnus	0-1	WANG Hao
TOPALOV Veselin	½ -½	ARONIAN Levon
ANAND Viswanathan	1-0	HAMMER Jon Ludvig
NAKAMURA Hikaru	1-0	RADJABOV Teimour
SVIDLER Peter	1-0	KARJAKIN Sergey

Cross table
Round report from Hans Arild Runde will follow.

Tomorrow: last round of Norway Chess 2013

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:54:15 +0000

Round 9, the last round of Norway Chess 2013, is played tomorrow at Stavanger Concert Hall. It will be a very interesting round, with six possible winners of the tournament! The round starts at 12:00

For the spectators there will also be a Norwegian celebrity tournament with Alex Rosén, Lars Monsen, Per Inge Torkelsen, Thorir Hergeirsson, Trine Rein, Eddi Eidsvåg, Sara Louise Rung, Eirin Sund og Arne Møller.

Round report 7

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:54:05 +0000

Round 7 of Norway Chess was another spectacular round, but this time even the venue itself was part of the spectacle. The players were transported by boat to Flor & Fjære, an incredible park at a small island just north of Stavanger, where the audience, press and the players themselves were offered the grand tour and a lovely meal in the restaurant. In the playing hall Svidler and Topalov tried for a world record in exchanging off all the pieces quickly, only to arrive in a pawn ending where the russian soon squandered his small advantage and a draw was agreed. Wang Hao vs Aronian also drew, without too much ado. Meanwhile, Radjabov butchered his Catalan in surprisingly few moves, and Anand safely converted his advantage. Among the two guys in front, Carlsen seemed to struggle, only to see Hammer fall apart when his opponent got short on time. Hence, Carlsen extended his win streak to 3 games. The tournament leader Karjakin was back on track today, deconstructing Nakamura’s Sicilan Najdorf rather convincingly, showing some good technique to clinch the full point in the end.

Read the full report here

Quiz winner round 6

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Thu, 16 May 2013 10:30:11 +0000

The winner of a one-year-subscription to New In Chess was:

Gerhard Niebergall from Häusern, Germany

Question:
At the end of last year World Champion Vishy Anand was elected Sportsperson of the Year in India for his successful defence of the world title against Boris Gelfand in Moscow. Here in Norway the two main tabloids Dagbladet and VG voted Magnus Carlsen Sportsman of the Year because of his continuing successes and because he broke Garry Kasparov’s all-time high rating record. They are not the only participants in Norway Chess 2013 that have been honoured in such a manner. Which two grandmasters were elected Sportsman of the Year in 2005 in their countries? So, which two players and which two countries? And what prize came with that honour? (It happened to be the same in both cases.)

Answer:
In 2005 Veselin Topalov was elected Sportsman of the Year in Bulgaria after he had won the World Championship Tournament in San Luis, in Argentina. In that same year Levon Aronian was elected Sportsman of the Year in Armenia for his great results. Both received a car.

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Photos from today

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:45:09 +0000

See photos from the round 7 at Flor & Fjære.

Results round 7

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:18:42 +0000

WANG Hao	½ -½	ARONIAN Levon
HAMMER Jon Ludvig	0-1	CARLSEN Magnus
SVIDLER Peter	½ -½	TOPALOV Veselin
RADJABOV Teimour	0-1	ANAND Viswanathan
KARJAKIN Sergey	1-0	NAKAMURA Hikaru

Cross table
Round report from Hans Arild Runde will follow.

Round report 6 by Hans Arild Runde

Siv Kristin Herikstad — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:57:34 +0000

Round 6

Just like in previous rounds of Norway Chess 2013, round 6 offered a lot of entertainment for the audience. We saw one pretty brutal win, one pretty boring draw, one exciting draw where none of the players ever seemed to get the upper hand, one nail biting draw where the worse side held on by the slimmest of margins and finally a totally exhausting end game squeeze where the relentless pressure eventually became too much for the defending side. In other words, Hammer lost rather brutally to Aronian, Topalov and Wang Hao played a peaceful draw, Nakamura and Svidler both stayed in control in their sharp battle, Karjakin barely saved a draw against world champion Anand, and Carlsen managed to bank another full point in a long grind against Radjabov.

Read the full report here