Chess championships
World Champ Gukesh To Run Into Nakamura In Norway Chess 2025
This year’s event promises intense battles as the youngest World Champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, takes on the world’s top three players. Adding to the excitement, India’s No.1 Arjun Erigaisi and China’s No.1 Wei Yi will make their Norway Chess debuts. The prestigious event to be held in Stavanger, Norway from May 26 to June 6, 2025, will feature World No.1 Magnus Carlsen, World No.2 Fabiano Caruana, World No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura, World No. 4 Arjun Erigaisi, World No. 5 Gukesh D, World No. 9 Wei Yi.
"This is one of the strongest line-ups in a chess tournament ever, with four of them with a rating over 2800 – the average rating across players is 2795. There are only five rating points that separate it from the strongest tournament we had, which was Norway Chess in 2017," the organizers of the event informed in a release on Tuesday.
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