{"id":13067,"date":"2025-08-21T10:39:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/?p=13067"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:40:34","slug":"norway-chess-update-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/2025\/08\/21\/norway-chess-update-august-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Chess Update: August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As planning begins for the next edition of Norway Chess, we are looking back at one of the most memorable moments from Norway Chess 2025. Magnus Carlsen\u2019s dramatic table slam, following his loss to reigning World Champion Gukesh D, quickly became one of the most viral chess moments in history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"598\">Global Impact<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"722\">This unforgettable scene\u00a0resonated far beyond the chess community, spreading rapidly across platforms and reaching a worldwide audience:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"724\" data-end=\"1092\">\n<li data-start=\"724\" data-end=\"792\">\n<p data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"792\"><strong data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"748\">165+ million views<\/strong> across Norway Chess social media channels<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"793\" data-end=\"913\">\n<p data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"913\">Shared by global figures including <strong data-start=\"830\" data-end=\"869\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/strong> and clubs such as <strong data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"911\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"914\" data-end=\"1020\">\n<p data-start=\"916\" data-end=\"1020\">Covered by major outlets including <strong data-start=\"951\" data-end=\"1018\">ESPN, NBC, Fox News, The New York Times, and The Times of India<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1021\" data-end=\"1092\">\n<p data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1092\">Inspired <strong data-start=\"1032\" data-end=\"1071\">13,000+ remixes and fan-made videos<\/strong> on Instagram alone<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1094\" data-end=\"1219\">In total, Norway Chess 2025 generated <strong data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1161\">544 million views<\/strong> and more than <strong data-start=\"1176\" data-end=\"1202\">22 million engagements <\/strong>on own social media channels \u2013 all organic.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1221\" data-end=\"1248\">Revisiting the Moment<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1534\">In July, the Norway Chess team appeared on <em data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"209\">The World Chess Show<\/em> to discuss the 2025 tournament, its global impact, and the extraordinary reaction to Magnus Carlsen\u2019s \u201ctable slam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1534\"><strong>Watch the full episode on YouTube:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Clash: Carlsen, Gukesh, and the Future of Chess I The World Chess Show: Episode 4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EpBohW9I7z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1534\"><strong>We will be sharing more news as plans for next year\u2019s tournament come together, but for now, it\u2019s fun to revisit a moment that had the whole world talking.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As planning begins for the next edition of Norway Chess, we are looking back at one of the most memorable moments from Norway Chess 2025. Magnus Carlsen\u2019s dramatic table slam, following his loss to reigning World Champion Gukesh D, quickly became one of the most viral chess moments in history. Global Impact This unforgettable scene\u00a0resonated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":13065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13070,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions\/13070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}