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Norway Chess full schedule: After Gukesh vs Magnus Carlsen on Monday, here are key dates to track
World No 1 Magnus Carlsen expects a slow start from himself at Norway Chess. World Champion Gukesh thinks his opening game with Carlsen will be a "fun challenge”. Here's the full schedule for Indians at Norway Chess.
World champion Gukesh will start his Norway Chess campaign against world no 1 Magnus Carlsen on Monday. (Norway Chess via Michal Walusza)The 2025 edition of Norway Chess starts off with a blockbuster clash between reigning world champion Gukesh and the world no 1 Magnus Carlsen at Stavanger in Norway on Monday. The clash sees the 18-year-old from Chennai face off against the man from Norway who abdicated the throne without a pawn marching down the chessboard in 2023 for the first time since 2023.
“Whether it’s against Gukesh or somebody else here, I’m not really quite sure what to expect from those games in particular,” Carlsen said at the press conference on Sunday. “I certainly want to do well in those games and he (Gukesh) does as well.”
Carlsen indicated that since he rarely plays classical chess these days, he expected to start slow.
“It’s going to take a little time for me to get into the speed of the game. I don’t expect necessarily to be at my sharpest in the first couple of games. I feel like I’m never that unless I’ve had very recent playing experience. I hope in a week from now, I’ll be in great shape,” Magnus Carlsen said.
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Gukesh, on the other hand, comes into the tournament on the back of an slump in form in 2025.
“After the World Championship, out of the tournaments that I played, Wijk aan Zee was really good. After that, none of the tournaments have been actually good. But now I’m back to working, and training hard. So, it’s just that if I continue to do the right thing and stay consistent, then the results will improve. Certainly, as compared to the first couple of months after the World Championship, I’ve started training more seriously. These kind of things happen, bad tournaments, they keep happening,” Gukesh said at the press conference on Sunday.
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World champion Gukesh is interviewed by WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili at Stavanger ahead of the Norway Chess tournament.(Express Photo by Amit Kamath)
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Important dates to note involving Indians
Round 1 – May 26
Wei Yi vs Arjun Erigaisi
Magnus Carlsen vs Gukesh
Koneru Humpy vs Vaishali
Round 2 – May 27
Arjun Erigaisi vs Gukesh
Vaishali vs Lei Tingjie
Anna Muzychuk vs Koneru Humpy
Round 3 – May 28
Fabiano Caruana vs Arjun Erigaisi
Gukesh vs Hikaru Nakamura
Koneru Humpy vs Sara Khadem
Ju Wenjun vs Vaishali
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Round 4 – May 29
Magnus Carlsen vs Arjun Erigaisi
Gukesh vs Fabiano Caruana
Ju Wenjun vs Koneru Humpy
Vaishali vs Anna Muzychuk
Round 5 – May 31
Arjun Erigaisi vs Hikaru Nakamura
Wei Yi vs Gukesh
Khadem vs Vaishali
Koneru Humpy vs Lei Tingjie
Round 6 – June 1
Arjun Erigaisi vs Wei Yi
Gukesh vs Magnus Carlsen
Vaishali vs Koneru Humpy
Round 7 – June 2
Gukesh vs Arjun Erigaisi
Lei Tingjie vs Vaishali
Koneru Humpy vs Anna Muzychuk
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Round 8 – June 3
Arjun Erigaisi vs Fabiano Caruana
Hikaru Nakamura vs Gukesh
Khadem vs Koneru
Vaishali vs Ju Wenjun
Round 9 – June 5
Hikaru Nakamura vs Arjun Erigaisi
Gukesh vs Wei Yi
Vaishali vs Sara Khadem
Lei Tingjie vs Koneru Humpy
Round 10 – June 6
Arjun Erigaisi vs Magnus Carlsen
Fabiano Caruana vs Gukesh
Koneru Humpy vs Ju Wenjun
Anna Muzychuk vs Vaishali
(The writer is in Stavanger at the invitation of Norway Chess)
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