PRAGNANANDHAA WINS NORWAY CHESS

THE DECISIVE GAME

Firouzja led the tournament during the first half of the tournament and Wesley So made it during the second half but in the last minute Pragg cames with a victory vs Keymer while the other 2 leaders made draw between each other to steal the Norway Chess title.

No banged tables this year

Magnus take so serious the games between the world champion Gukesh to show that he still being the best, the last year Gukesh beat him in a very famous game with Magnus banging the tabler but this year the Goat showed Gukesh who's boss in the 2 games.

Punishing a bad bishop to take the silver

Zhu Jiner ended the tournament in a great way scoring 9/9 in the last 3 rounds, this one vs Humpy in a positioanl way trading all the pieces to keep over the board this bad bishop of his opponent and the queens to help his knight to create problems.

Agressive Alapin to take the bronze

After 9 draws in the classicals winning the marority of the armageddons finally Muzychuk takes the 3 points who she neded to reach the podium.

Congratulation to the winners of both tournaments i really enjoyed watching and analyzing this tournament, tou have a blog post of each round and in this study ther are the 32 games that i analyced :Lichess Study and here tha playlist of all the games commented in my youtube channel: Norway Chess 2026.
Hope that you enjoy the tournament and see you in the next one, bye bye.