We are very happy to welcome you to Norway Chess Open 2024!
The playing venue will be will be Clarion Hotel Energy in Stavanger.
Norway Chess Open will include one GM group which is available for players with an ELO of at least 1800 (in the official FIDE lists from February, March, April or May 2024) – plus, one ELO group which is available to all tournament players.
Both groups will see a 9 rounds Swiss tournament. Starting with registration and round 1 on Friday May 24th, finishing off with round 9 and prize giving ceremony on Thursday May 30th.
The tournament following this will include nine rounds in seven days. Players finding this schedule too hard are welcome to request a walk-over draw for one or two games within the first seven rounds. Note however, that participants in the GM group must play all nine rounds if they want to make title norms possible.
Participants are required to register for the tournament via Turneringsservice, at latest May 15 at 23.00 hours. Later registrations will be accepted only if we still have sufficient space in the playing venue. Entry fees can be paid during the registration Friday May 24th, before the pairings of round 1. Following this you are not required to pay anything before arrival.
Tournament Venue
Playing venue is Clarion Hotel Energy – address: Ishockeyveien 2, 4021 Stavanger. Parking in DNB Arena.
The playing hotel offers participants and their accompanying persons a discounted price for hotel rooms with breakfast buffet. Cost each night:
Single room – 1190 NOK
Double room – 1390 NOK
(1 Euro is currently about 11,5 NOK, and so the current prices each night are about 103 Euros for a single room or 120 Euros for a double room.Tournament period from May 24th to May 30th will be six nights.)
To book your room with a discount, please visit this page. The discount is valid for rooms between May 23rd and June 3rd.
We recommend players to book hotel rooms as soon as possible and not later than March 31st, as room shortage might be a problem the last weeks before the tournament.
Norway Chess Weekend Tournament
Note: For players eager to play more than 9 rated games in Stavanger, we will this year also offer a shorter rounds Open tournament named Norway Chess Weekend 2024 – starting the day after last round of Norway Chess Open, June 31st. Norway Chess Weekend will play 5 rated rounds between May 31st and June 2nd.
Read more at the end of the page here.
Admission to Norway Chess
As a participant in the Norway Chess Open, you can enter for free to watch the Norway Chess tournament in Finansparken (Christen Tranes gate 35). The tournament starts at 5PM every day. Please find the schedule here.
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