{"id":7733,"date":"2020-08-25T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/?p=7733"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:22:33","slug":"jan-krzysztof-duda-to-replace-anish-giri-in-upcoming-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/2020\/08\/25\/jan-krzysztof-duda-to-replace-anish-giri-in-upcoming-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan-Krzysztof Duda to replace Anish Giri in upcoming tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final line-up of 6 players in this double round-robin event was announced last week. Since then there has been a change as Dutch Grandmaster, Anish Giri, decided to withdraw due to growing concerns around the Covid-19 situation in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Altibox Norway Chess team is thrilled to announce that Polish Grandmaster Jan-Krzysztof Duda has accepted the invitation to play in this historic edition of the tournament. It will be Duda\u2019s first time playing in Altibox Norway Chess. Duda is a very interesting player and will be a great addition to the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The player list:<\/p>\n<p>Magnus Carlsen (Norway)<br \/>\nFabiano Caruana (USA)<br \/>\nLevon Aronian (Armenia)<br \/>\nJan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)<br \/>\nAlireza Firouzja (FIDE)\u00a0and<br \/>\nAryan Tari (Norway)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I must admit that I was surprised by the proposal to play in the tournament in Stavanger, which I got on my way to Ustro\u0144 for the MOKATE tournament. However, I did not even think about declining this offer for a moment. Extremely interesting and, for me, a strong line-up of the tournament promises great emotions, and for me it will be another opportunity to test myself with the best chess players in the world. For my part, I promise what I&#8217;m known for &#8211; courage, uncompromising play and fight to the very end. I intend to use the possible quarantine for broadening my knowledge about Norway and preparing for the tournament.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>Jan-Krzysztof Duda<\/p>\n<p>The first round starts October 5 and ends on October 16. There are two free days (Oct. 9 and 14).<\/p>\n<p>The organizers are doing major preparations in regards to Covid-19 to assure a safest possible environment for the players, their team members, crew and other people involved.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the Altibox Norway Chess tournament on chess24.com and on TV 2 Sport\/Sumo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7736 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DSC0014-3-Edit-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DSC0014-3-Edit-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DSC0014-3-Edit-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DSC0014-3-Edit-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DSC0014-3-Edit-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DSC0014-3-Edit-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/DSC0014-3-Edit-1-317x211.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final line-up of 6 players in this double round-robin event was announced last week. Since then there has been a change as Dutch Grandmaster, Anish Giri, decided to withdraw due to growing concerns around the Covid-19 situation in the Netherlands. Now, the Altibox Norway Chess team is thrilled to announce that Polish Grandmaster Jan-Krzysztof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7733","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\/7733","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7733\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}