The 2025 version of Norway Chess begins off with a blockbuster conflict between reigning world champion Gukesh and the world no 1 Magnus Carlsen at Stavanger in Norway on Monday. The conflict sees the 18-year-old from Chennai face off towards the person from Norway who abdicated the throne with no pawn marching down the chessboard in 2023 for the primary time since 2023.
“Whether or not it’s towards Gukesh or any person else right here, I’m not likely fairly certain what to anticipate from these video games specifically,” Carlsen stated on the press convention on Sunday. “I actually wish to do properly in these video games and he (Gukesh) does as properly.”
Carlsen indicated that since he hardly ever performs classical chess as of late, he anticipated to begin sluggish.
“It’s going to take a while for me to get into the velocity of the sport. I don’t count on essentially to be at my sharpest within the first couple of video games. I really feel like I’m by no means that until I’ve had very current taking part in expertise. I hope in per week from now, I’ll be in nice form,” Magnus Carlsen stated.
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Gukesh, however, comes into the match on the again of an droop in kind in 2025.
“After the World Championship, out of the tournaments that I performed, Wijk aan Zee was actually good. After that, not one of the tournaments have been truly good. However now I’m again to working, and coaching onerous. So, it’s simply that if I proceed to do the fitting factor and keep constant, then the outcomes will enhance. Definitely, as in comparison with the primary couple of months after the World Championship, I’ve began coaching extra critically. These sort of issues occur, dangerous tournaments, they hold occurring,” Gukesh stated on the press convention on Sunday.
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World champion Gukesh is interviewed by WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili at Stavanger forward of the Norway Chess match.(Categorical Picture by Amit Kamath)
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Vital dates to notice involving Indians
Spherical 1 – Could 26
Wei Yi vs Arjun Erigaisi
Magnus Carlsen vs Gukesh
Koneru Humpy vs Vaishali
Spherical 2 – Could 27
Arjun Erigaisi vs Gukesh
Vaishali vs Lei Tingjie
Anna Muzychuk vs Koneru Humpy
Spherical 3 – Could 28
Fabiano Caruana vs Arjun Erigaisi
Gukesh vs Hikaru Nakamura
Koneru Humpy vs Sara Khadem
Ju Wenjun vs Vaishali
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Spherical 4 – Could 29
Magnus Carlsen vs Arjun Erigaisi
Gukesh vs Fabiano Caruana
Ju Wenjun vs Koneru Humpy
Vaishali vs Anna Muzychuk
Spherical 5 – Could 31
Arjun Erigaisi vs Hikaru Nakamura
Wei Yi vs Gukesh
Khadem vs Vaishali
Koneru Humpy vs Lei Tingjie
Spherical 6 – June 1
Arjun Erigaisi vs Wei Yi
Gukesh vs Magnus Carlsen
Vaishali vs Koneru Humpy
Spherical 7 – June 2
Gukesh vs Arjun Erigaisi
Lei Tingjie vs Vaishali
Koneru Humpy vs Anna Muzychuk
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Spherical 8 – June 3
Arjun Erigaisi vs Fabiano Caruana
Hikaru Nakamura vs Gukesh
Khadem vs Koneru
Vaishali vs Ju Wenjun
Spherical 9 – June 5
Hikaru Nakamura vs Arjun Erigaisi
Gukesh vs Wei Yi
Vaishali vs Sara Khadem
Lei Tingjie vs Koneru Humpy
Spherical 10 – June 6
Arjun Erigaisi vs Magnus Carlsen
Fabiano Caruana vs Gukesh
Koneru Humpy vs Ju Wenjun
Anna Muzychuk vs Vaishali
(The author is in Stavanger on the invitation of Norway Chess)