{"id":9288,"date":"2022-04-07T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/?p=9288"},"modified":"2022-04-07T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:14:19","slug":"meet-the-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/2022\/04\/07\/meet-the-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the players!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press release<br \/>\n07.04.22<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 10th edition of Norway Chess will take place between May 31st to June 10th in Stavanger.<\/p>\n<p>Together with our primary partner, NES Fircroft, we proudly present the following players:<\/p>\n<p>World Chess Champion, <strong>Magnus Carlsen<\/strong> (Norway)<br \/>\n<strong>Richard <\/strong><strong>Rapport<\/strong>\u00a0(Hungary)<br \/>\n<strong>Wesley <\/strong><strong>So<\/strong>\u00a0(USA)<br \/>\n<strong>Shakhriyar <\/strong><strong>Mamedyravov<\/strong> (Azerbaijan)<br \/>\n<strong>Anish <\/strong><strong>Giri<\/strong> (The Netherlands)<br \/>\n<strong>Teymur Rajabov<\/strong> (Azerbaijan)<br \/>\n<strong>Viswanathan <\/strong><strong>Anand<\/strong> (India)<br \/>\n<strong>Maxime Vachier-Lagrave<\/strong> (France)<br \/>\n<strong>Veselin Topalov<\/strong> (Bulgaria)<br \/>\n<strong>Wang Hao<\/strong>\u00a0(China)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome top chess players back to Stavanger to what will be an exciting tournament at Finansparken. This year we are celebrating our 10<sup>th<\/sup> tournament anniversary and we are looking forward to many side events and a great celebration of the game of chess.&#8221; \u2013 Kjell Madland, founder of Norway Chess<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9285 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Twitter-Image-PLayers-White-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Twitter-Image-PLayers-White-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Twitter-Image-PLayers-White-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Twitter-Image-PLayers-White-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Twitter-Image-PLayers-White-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Twitter-Image-PLayers-White-317x178.jpg 317w, https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Twitter-Image-PLayers-White.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release 07.04.22 &nbsp; The 10th edition of Norway Chess will take place between May 31st to June 10th in Stavanger. Together with our primary partner, NES Fircroft, we proudly present the following players: World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen (Norway) Richard Rapport\u00a0(Hungary) Wesley So\u00a0(USA) Shakhriyar Mamedyravov (Azerbaijan) Anish Giri (The Netherlands) Teymur Rajabov (Azerbaijan) Viswanathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9288","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\/9288","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=9288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9289,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288\/revisions\/9289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwaychess.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}