GM Arjun Erigaisi has joined GM Hikaru Nakamura within the Norway Chess 2025 lead after handing a second loss in a row to World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju. GM Fabiano Caruana bounced again with a superb win over GM Wei Yi, whereas GM Magnus Carlsen first spoiled a promising classical place towards Nakamura after which misplaced a loopy armageddon the place he could not put the ending touches to a profitable assault earlier than the U.S. star hit again.
GM Anna Muzychuk took the one classical win in spherical two of Ladies’s Norway Chess 2025 towards GM Koneru Humpy to take a 1.5-point lead. After correct attracts, GMs Lei Tingjie and Ju Wenjun received their armageddon encounters towards GMs Vaishali Rameshbabu and Sara Khadem respectively.
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Spherical three begins Wednesday, Could 28, at 11 a.m. ET / 17:00 CEST / 8:30 p.m. IST.
Norway Chess Spherical 2 Outcomes
As soon as once more, half of the classical video games had been decisive in spherical two.
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Arjun and Nakamura now lead Norway Chess, with 4.5 out of a attainable six factors.
Norway Chess Standings After Spherical 2
It has been an extremely powerful begin for World Champion Gukesh, who misplaced to Carlsen in spherical one and now misplaced a thriller to his compatriot Arjun in spherical two.
Heartbreak for Gukesh as he loses to Arjun regardless of coming agonizingly near saving the sport! https://t.co/Uu5vHhDLjX#NorwayChess pic.twitter.com/GPKsT22PpD
— chess24 (@chess24com) Could 27, 2025
That is our Sport of the Day, which GM Rafael Leitao will analyze beneath:
Ladies
After scoring 1.5 factors with an armageddon win on the day gone by, Muzychuk gained one other three with the one classical win on Tuesday.
Norway Chess Ladies’s Standings After Spherical 2
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Norway Chess 2025 options Open and Ladies’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 sport will get three factors, the loser, zero; after a draw, the gamers get one level and struggle for an additional half-point in armageddon (10 minutes for White, seven for Black, who has draw odds).
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