The Norwegian Super Tournament!

Hey guys, the biggest tournament of the month starts tommorow with blitz games happening today. 

Here are a few links to the tournament games.

http://chessbomb.com/site/

http://live.norwaychess.com/

Here is a link to the live broadcast and commentary.

http://norwaychess.com/en/supertournament/live-video/

 Post game analysis:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Chessexplained/search?query=Norway+2013+super+tournament+recap

Here is all the information you need about the tournament.

This is from the recent chess.com news area:

The format is a single-round-robin and the official website promises live commentary from Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam and Simen Agdestein, as well as live game broadcasts and live video.

The time control is 100 mins for 40 moves, then 50 mins for 20 moves, and then 15 mins to a finish with a 30 second increment from the start. The "Sofia" anti-draw rules will apply.

The drawing of lots will be settled by a blitz tournament on the 7th of May at a time control of 4 min + 2 sec increment.

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Tournament Schedule (Times = UTC + 2)

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The main sponsors are the Norwegian companies HTH and Jadarhus, and it's hoped that the tournament will become a regular fixture in the calendar.

The event will also include a school tournament with hundreds of children, and a celebrity tournament with a range of celebrities showing off their chess skills!

I wish all good luck and a tournament we hope to enjoy!

I haven't looked at the games in depth, but it looks like Anand is mopping everyone, as usual in rapid events...

EDIT : note to self : look at the loss vs Naka.

According to chessbomb.com/site, Anand is winning the blitz competition on tiebreaks, his score is tied with Carlsen, Karjakin, Svidler, and Nakamura.

"it looks like Anand is mopping everyone, as usual in rapid events"

Well, it was blitz, Karjakin won, and Anand doesn't win rapid tournaments all that often nowadays.

Huh, true.

How did that happen ? I believed Anand was basically unbeatable in rapid chess...

Levon Aronian in 9th place is pretty surprising.

In other chess news, Anna Muzychuk has a +1.54 advantage over Yifan Hou right now--great game!

Also, Kramnik was replaced by Peter Svidler in the Norway event. I'm also checking out the two Norway games, Carlsen vs Topalov, and Anand vs Aronian. Both games are pretty even right now.

Anand vs Aronian just ended in a draw.

Lahno vs Ushenina is really good, as well!

(I blame my double espresso for me being so talkative this morning)

Great info Randomemory! Is there a way to watch yesterday's matches? 

HAMMERtime! You can do it....

This game is pretty neat as well, being played now. Here is the present position:

If computer analysis is anything to go by, that looks like the only game which could be decisive.

Wow! Muzychuk won Hou! Lahno and Ushenina drew, So Lahno and Muzychuk are tied for first.

Mind you Radjabov has got himself intoa bit of time trouble here.

Nine minutes for 24 moves!

I think there is a 30 second increment per turn. So he has an extra 12 minutes.

43 seconds to make 3 moves, and he's probably lost...oh rajdabov.

Wang Hao is in a similar position also (at about -1 and running out of time.)