Norway Chess 2025 all you want to know – gamers, format, prize cash, schedule and reside streaming

The much-awaited Norway Chess 2025 is all set to happen in Stavanger from Monday onwards. It can convey collectively a number of the world’s prime chess grandmasters below one roof, together with the likes of
D Gukesh and Magnus Carlsen
. Each these champions are slated to play the opening spherical in opposition to one another.

In the meantime, Indian followers may even be excited for Arjun Erigaisi, Humpy Koneru, and Vaishali Rameshbabu, who can be in motion there. Let’s check out the gamers competing, their pairings, the complete schedule, the prize cash, the format, and the reside streaming particulars of Norway Chess 2025.

When and the place to look at Norway Chess 2025?

Norway Chess 2025 can be held from 26 Could to six June in Stavanger, Norway. The video games will happen at Finansparken. All rounds will start at 8:30 PM IST and can run till round 1:30 AM. The ladies’s matches can be performed on the identical dates as the lads’s video games and in the identical corridor.

Gamers and pairings for Norway Chess 2025

Norway Chess 2025: Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Gukesh D (India), Fabiano Caruana (USA), Arjun Erigaisi (India), and Wei Yi (China).

Norway Chess Ladies 2025: Ju Wenjun (China), Lei Tingjie (China), Humpy Koneru (India), Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine), Vaishali Rameshbabu (India), and Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Spain).

Norway Chess 2025 Pairings

Spherical 1 – 26 Could
Wei Yi vs Erigaisi
Caruana vs Nakamura
Carlsen vs Gukesh

Spherical 2 – 27 Could
Erigaisi vs Gukesh
Nakamura vs Carlsen
Wei Yi vs Caruana

Spherical 3 – 28 Could
Caruana vs Erigaisi
Carlsen vs Wei Yi
Gukesh vs Nakamura

Spherical 4 – 29 Could
Carlsen vs Erigaisi
Gukesh vs Caruana
Nakamura vs Wei Yi

Spherical 5 – 31 Could
Erigaisi vs Nakamura
Wei Yi vs Gukesh
Caruana vs Carlsen

Spherical 6 – 1 June
Erigaisi vs Wei Yi
Nakamura vs Caruana
Gukesh vs Carlsen

Spherical 7 – 2 June
Gukesh vs Erigaisi
Carlsen vs Nakamura
Caruana vs Wei Yi

Spherical 8 – 3 June
Erigaisi vs Caruana
Wei Yi vs Carlsen
Nakamura vs Gukesh

Spherical 9 – 5 June
Nakamura vs Erigaisi
Gukesh vs Wei Yi
Carlsen vs Caruana

Spherical 10 – 6 June
Erigaisi vs Carlsen
Caruana vs Gukesh
Wei Yi vs Nakamura

Norway Chess Ladies 2025 Pairings

Spherical 1
Tingjie vs Ju Wenjun
Koneru vs Vaishali
Lei Tingjie vs Ju Wenjun

Spherical 2
Khadem vs Ju Wenjun
Vaishali vs Lei Tingjie
Muzychuk vs Koneru

Spherical 3
Koneru vs Khadem
Lei Tingjie vs Muzychuk
Ju Wenjun vs Vaishali

Spherical 4
Lei Tingjie vs Khadem
Ju Wenjun vs Koneru
Vaishali vs Muzychuk

Spherical 5
Khadem vs Vaishali
Muzychuk vs Ju Wenjun
Koneru vs Lei Tingjie

Spherical 6
Khadem vs Muzychuk
Vaishali vs Koneru
Ju Wenjun vs Lei Tingjie

Spherical 7
Ju Wenjun vs Khadem
Lei Tingjie vs Vaishali
Koneru vs Muzychuk

Spherical 8
Khadem vs Koneru
Muzychuk vs Lei Tingjie
Vaishali vs Ju Wenjun

Spherical 9
Vaishali vs Khadem
Ju Wenjun vs Muzychuk
Lei Tingjie vs Koneru

Spherical 10
Khadem vs Lei Tingjie
Koneru vs Ju Wenjun
Muzychuk vs Vaishali

What’s the format of Norway Chess 2025?

Norway Chess and Norway Chess Ladies can be performed in the identical format. Every match has 6 gamers, and everybody will play in opposition to one another twice. There can be no attracts on this match. If the primary classical sport ends in a tie, the gamers will play a quick tiebreaker referred to as an Armageddon sport, so there’ll at all times be a winner in each match.

What’s the prize cash at Norway Chess 2025?

The whole prize cash for every of the Norway Chess 2025 tournaments – Norway Chess and Norway Chess Ladies – is roughly Rs 1.3 crore (NOK 1,690,000). The winner will take dwelling round Rs 54 lakh (NOK 700,000), whereas the runner-up will obtain about Rs 27 lakh (NOK 350,000).

The third-place finisher will get Rs 15.5 lakh (NOK 200,000), adopted by Rs 13.1 lakh (NOK 170,000) for fourth, Rs 11.5 lakh (NOK 150,000) for fifth, and Rs 9.2 lakh (NOK 120,000) for sixth place. If gamers end with the identical rating, the prize can be shared, apart from the primary prize, which can be determined by means of a play-off or double round-robin format.

Learn how to watch Norway Chess 2025 in India?

The reside streaming of Norway Chess 2025 can be obtainable on the SonyLIV app and web site in India.