After 10 tense days of play, with 30 classical games and a further 14 Armageddon games the winner has emerged!<\/p>\n
At some point it seemed that Richard Rapport<\/strong> was unstoppable: after an impressive start his lead after 7 rounds increased to more than 3 points, which equalled a full classical win at the event. Similarly, the last three days of Norway Chess 2021 likewise didn’t fail to impress: both Magnus Carlsen <\/strong>and Alireza Firouzja <\/strong>managed to win four classical games in a row, finishing the tournament in first place and second place respectively.<\/p>\n Until the very last moment it was unclear who would be the winner, and in three possible scenarios there could even have been a play-off match! But Magnus Carlsen is the current World Champion for a very good reason: he works hard at the board and always looks for chances.<\/p>\n We anticipate a real treat for the chess world this November as two of the world’s best players, Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi, will meet in Dubai for the World Championship match.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, see you all next year in Stavanger, for Norway Chess 2022!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After 10 tense days of play, with 30 classical games and a further 14 Armageddon games the winner has emerged! At some point it seemed that Richard Rapport was unstoppable: after an impressive start his lead after 7 rounds increased to more than 3 points, which equalled a full classical win at the event. Similarly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","category-news-en","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052","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=9052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9052\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}