{"id":15313,"date":"2026-05-30T09:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/?p=15313"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:09:53","slug":"sailing-time-norway-chess-games-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/2026\/05\/30\/sailing-time-norway-chess-games-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Time: Norway Chess Games 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year during one of the rest days, Norway Chess hosts its beloved side event \u2014 the Norway Chess Games \u2014 where the world’s top players trade the board for something a little less predictable.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo: <\/strong>Norway Chess \/ Michal Walusza\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

This year, that meant sailing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The players headed out on the Oslofjord aboard Dufour sailing boats provided by Norway Chess partner W-Yacht, split into two teams: Team Grey (Magnus Carlsen, Divya Deshmukh, Vincent Keymer, Bibisara Assaubayeva and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu) versus Team Blue (Gukesh Dommaraju, Wesley So, Humpy Koneru, Anna Muzychuk and Zhu Jiner).<\/span><\/p>\n

After a spirited battle on the water, Team Blue came out on top \u2014 and for Gukesh, who was celebrating his birthday, it must have felt like the perfect present. He wasn’t the only one making the most of the day either \u2014 Divya, Vincent, Praggnanandhaa and Gukesh himself also got to experience the fjord at full speed, with a speedboat ride rounding off the day on the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s been quite the list over the years \u2014 gourmet cooking, cow milking, tractor driving, fencing, archery, bubble football \u2014 and this year’s sailing race sits comfortably among them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo: <\/strong>Norway Chess \/ Michal Walusza\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo: <\/strong>Norway Chess \/ Michal Walusza\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo:<\/strong> Norway Chess \/ Signator<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo:<\/strong> Norway Chess \/ Signator<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo:<\/strong> Norway Chess \/ Dea Maioli Egeli<\/em><\/p>\n

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More photos from Norway Chess Games can be found on Flickr<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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