With wins of their spherical seven classical video games of Norway Chess 2025, GM Fabiano Caruana has taken pole place whereas World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju follows a degree behind. Caruana defeated GM Wei Yi on the latter’s twenty sixth birthday, squeezing water from stone in a pawn-up endgame that ought to have been equal. Gukesh, after crawling out of a worse-to-lost place, scored his first-ever classical victory in opposition to GM Arjun Erigaisi. GM Magnus Carlsen sunk to 3rd place, although he beat GM Hikaru Nakamura with White in armageddon.
GM Ju Wenjun‘s first classical win of Girls’s Norway Chess 2025, in opposition to IM Sara Khadem, has catapulted her into the only lead with three rounds to go. The conflict of the earlier leaders noticed GM Anna Muzychuk defeat GM Koneru Humpy in armageddon, whereas GM Lei Tingjie additionally picked up a primary classical win after GM Vaishali Rameshbabu‘s place fell aside in time hassle.
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Spherical eight begins Tuesday, June 3, at 11 a.m. ET / 17:00 CEST / 8:30 p.m. IST.
Norway Chess Spherical 7 Outcomes
In essentially the most decisive day of Norway Chess 2025, we noticed no fewer than 4 classical wins. Gukesh, Caruana, Ju, and Lei completed their mini-matches in a single recreation.
Open: Caruana Scores third Classical Win, Unbeatable Gukesh Does It Once more
Caruana leads the pack by a degree with Gukesh simply behind. With three factors for a classical win, nevertheless, Carlsen remains to be very a lot within the combine with three rounds to go.
Norway Chess Standings After Spherical 7
GM Rafael Leitao analyzes the Recreation of the Day beneath.
Girls: Ju Wenjun Grabs The Sole Lead
Defending Norway Chess Girls’s Champion Ju adopted 5 armageddon wins in a row by scoring a primary classical win to take the only lead.
Norway Chess Girls’s Standings After Spherical 7
Colin McGourty contributed to this report.
The three gamers on the prime of the open event can have the black items on Tuesday, and all three of their opponents misplaced their mini-matches on yesterday. The chief of the ladies’s event, Ju, can have the black items in opposition to Vaishali, whereas Muzychuk, only a half-point behind, can have White in opposition to Lei.
The right way to watch?
Norway Chess 2025 options Open and Girls’s six-player tournaments for equal prize funds of 1,690,000 NOK (~$167,000). It runs Could 26 to June 6 in Stavanger, with gamers dealing with their opponents twice at classical chess (120 minutes/40 strikes, with a 10-second increment from transfer 41). The winner of a classical recreation will get three factors, the loser, zero; after a draw, the gamers get one level and combat for one more half-point in armageddon (10 minutes for White, seven for Black, who has draw odds).
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