{"id":9189,"date":"2022-02-18T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:58:31","slug":"norway-chess-to-finansparken-in-stavanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/2022\/02\/18\/norway-chess-to-finansparken-in-stavanger\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Chess to Finansparken in Stavanger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th Norway Chess tournament will take place in SR-bank&#8217;s premises, also called Finansparken, which is located in Bjergsted, Stavanger. From May 30 to June 10 June, employees, customers, and the public who visits Finansparken will take notice that Stavanger is a chess city of international standards.<\/p>\n<p>Ella Skj\u00f8restad, Executive Vice President, Customer Services and Marketing, becomes enthusiastic when she talks about having the Norway Chess tournament in their premises.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We root for people who get cool things done!<br \/>\nNorway Chess is a very exciting event to visit as a spectator. Having the tournament in our \u201chome\u201d, is proof that our building is more than just a workplace, and SR-Bank is more than just a bank, says Skj\u00f8restad. &#8211; It will be a combination of workplace during the day and a chess festival in the evening. It speaks to the qualities of the building and what can be done here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What is it about Norway Chess that makes them so attractive for the bank to host?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; This is an incredibly exciting concept that we are proud to invite into Finansparken. Since its inception in 2012, founder Kjell Madland and the team have done a formidable job creating an interaction between the city of Stavanger, the local business community, the media, and the chess sport. Previously, the tournament has been played at venues such as Flor &amp; Fj\u00e6re, Utstein Monastery and Stavanger Concert Hall. Norway Chess work actively to increase the interest in the game among children and youth, and to spread the interest and joy of chess to the people in general.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; SR-Bank has always cheered on \u201cdoers\u201d, and it&#8217;s just amazing how Norway Chess annually manages to gather large parts of the international chess elite to Stavanger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unique building<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finansparken was named Building of the Year and Wood Construction of the Year in 2019 and Breeam Outstanding certification. The building has seven floors above ground and three floors below ground. The building is 22,600 square meters and is the workplace of approximately 650 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Norway Chess is broadcasted as usual on Norwegian TV 2 sport and online in several different languages \u200b\u200bin collaboration with Chess24. Both TV 2 and the English-language broadcast will have their studio in Finansparken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9193\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9193\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9193\" src=\"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Unknown-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Unknown-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Unknown-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Unknown-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Unknown-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Unknown-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Unknown-317x211.jpeg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World class chess in a world class building. From the left: \u00d8yvind Knoph Askeland, Communications Director SR-bank, Alice-Katharina Nielsen, sponsor coordinator at SR-Bank, Benedicte Westre Skog, Jasmine Larsson and Kjell Madland from Norway Chess. Photo: Fredrik Refvem \/ Stavanger Aftenblad.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9177\" style=\"width: 1011px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9177\" class=\"wp-image-9177 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/50344247103_57b4340b6e_k-1001x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1001\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/50344247103_57b4340b6e_k-1001x1024.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/50344247103_57b4340b6e_k-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/50344247103_57b4340b6e_k-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/50344247103_57b4340b6e_k-1502x1536.jpg 1502w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/50344247103_57b4340b6e_k-234x239.jpg 234w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/50344247103_57b4340b6e_k.jpg 2002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foto: Sindre Ellingsen\/SpareBank 1 SR-Bank<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Norway Chess 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"201\"><strong>Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"201\"><strong>What<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Monday May 30<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">18.00 \u2013 21.30<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Blitz chess tournament<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Tuesday May 31<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Wednesday June 1<sup>st<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Thursday June 2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Friday June 3<sup>rd<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Saturday June 4<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Day off<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Opening of Norway Chess\u2019 MegaChess board<br \/>\nStavanger Concert Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Sunday June 5<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Monday June 6<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Tuesday June 7<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Wednesday June 8<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Day off<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Thursday June 9<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"201\">Friday June 10<sup>th<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">17.00 \u2013 22.00<\/td>\n<td width=\"201\">Round 9<\/p>\n<p>Finals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>Changes to the program may occur\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10th Norway Chess tournament will take place in SR-bank&#8217;s premises, also called Finansparken, which is located in Bjergsted, Stavanger. From May 30 to June 10 June, employees, customers, and the public who visits Finansparken will take notice that Stavanger is a chess city of international standards. Ella Skj\u00f8restad, Executive Vice President, Customer Services and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9189","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\/9189","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=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9196,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions\/9196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}