Marianne @MissOkComputer

Expectations vs. Reality 👀📈 We asked the players to predict their final score before Norway Chess started 🤩 #NorwayChess

Maybe we’ve just found a new captain… ⛵️ #NorwayChess

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Champion of Norway Chess Women 2026: Bibisara Assaubayeva 🏆 #NorwayChess

Watch my winner’s interview with @chessvaishali from yesterday’s WR Women’s Chess Tour rapid event here: youtu.be/AZtO3Orktnc?si…

Thank you to my mother for patient sacrifice, thank you to Norway Chess for this invitation, and thank you to GOD who makes all things possible. AMDG. stats.norwaychess.no/2026/standings

Bibisara Assaubayeva and Praggnanandhaa are our Norway Chess Champions 2026 🔥🏆🥳 #NorwayChess

The 2026 SPFGI is streamed live at twitch.tv/simplydevina. I will be on shortly. We will also have VIP guests today and tomorrow. #SPFGI @alexandrabotez @itsandreabotez @WOMChess @OnTheQueenside @USChess @USChessWomen @FideWomen @chesscom @ChessKidcom

Hours after Praggnanandhaa R. won Norway Chess 2026, sister Vaishali R. (@chessvaishali) shines in Tokyo, Japan, where she won the WR Women's Chess Tour's first event in Tokyo. This was a 8-player rapid event with a time control of 15+10. Vaishali performed amazingly well by beating IM Irene Sukandar in the Quarter finals with a score of 1.5-0.5, she then beat former Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk 1.5-0.5 and in the finals she was able to overcome IM Alua Nurman with 1.5-0.5 margin. Tomorrow 7th of June we will have the blitz event. A huge congratulations to the World Championship Challenger. She showed her class with some top quality chess! #chess #chessbaseindia #VaishaliRameshbabu @wr_chess

I was also recently invited to represent the USA at the Olympiad (in the Women's section in my case, obviously)! I'm super excited! This will be my first time to leave the country! 🇺🇸😃

Hans Niemann @HansMokeNiemann

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Looking forward to the UZ Chess Masters which starts tomorrow. I am also happy to announce that I will also represent the United States of America in the Olympiad later this year in Samarkand! Honored to finally represent my country!

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Divya Deshmukh besiegt die 5-fache Weltmeisterin! 🔥🔥

It runs in the family as @chessvaishali has now won the Rapid section of the 1st WR Women's Chess Tour event in Tokyo—winning her 3 matches without the need for Armageddon! chess.com/events/wr-wome…

In Tokyo for the @wr_chess Women’s Chess Tour! 🗼 Captured by @LennartOotes 📸

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Norway Chess 2026: 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R and 🇰🇿 Bibisara Assaubayeva win titles ♟️ Norway Chess 2026 brought together the world’s elite chess players for a super-tournament held from May 25 to June 5 in Oslo, Norway. The event proudly featured two elite tournaments running in parallel: the renowned Norway Chess and Norway Chess Women. Both competitions followed a 6-player double round-robin format with equal prize funds, highlighting a strong commitment to gender equality in chess. ⚡ A signature of Norway Chess is its distinctive scoring format. When a classical game ends in a draw, an Armageddon game determines the winner, ensuring decisive results in every round. Norway Chess 2026 concluded in Oslo on Friday with a dramatic final round, as 🇮🇳 Praggnanandhaa R scored a decisive classical victory to claim the title. 🇰🇿 Bibisara Assaubayeva delivered a stellar performance and securing the Norway Chess Women 2026 title with a round to spare. Read more: fide.com/norway-chess-2… 📷 Michal Walusza / Norway Chess

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India's Savitha Shri becomes the Asian women's champion 2026! Savitha is an IM with an Elo of 2374! She won the tournament in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia with a score of 7.5/9! With this she also qualifies for the FIDE World Cup 2027. A huge congratulations to Savitha! A big thanks to GM Swayams Mishra, the coach of Indian team for shooting this video and sending it to us! #chess #chessbaseindia @savithachess

15-year-old Anastasia Hnatyshyn from Lviv has become the European chess champion. She was ranked 74th out of 150, but she scored 9 points out of a possible 11 and became the fourth continental champion in the history of Ukrainian women's chess.

🇺🇿 Javokhir Sindarov on 🇰🇿 Bibisara Asaubayeva's victory at Norway Chess Women 2026: "I think Bibisara is a very strong chess player. If some grandmasters saw how she solves certain tasks, they would immediately understand her true level." "She was really very close to winning the Candidates Tournament. After the tournament, she was a bit upset, but I tried to motivate her because I know her true potential." "If she continues to work seriously on chess, I'm sure she can reach a rating of around 2600." "I'm very happy. I don't even know when she last won such a serious classical tournament. I'm very happy that she won such an important competition for her career." "I hope she will continue to play better and better. And, of course, she will become number one in women's chess."

As well as winning the European Women's Championship, 15-year-old 🇺🇦 WFM Anastasiia Hnatyshyn has climbed an astonishing 131 places and 214.4 rating points to World no. 18 (& Women's No. 1 Under 20) — she also likely receives the WGM title automatically! chess.com/ratings/women

🏆 NORWAY CHESS WOMEN 2026: FINAL STANDINGS 🏆 🥇 🇰🇿 Bibisara Assaubayeva: Champion 🥈 🇨🇳 Zhu Jiner 🥉 🇺🇦 Anna Muzychuk Although Bibisara Assaubayeva suffered a final-round loss, she had already secured the tournament victory before the last round and is crowned Norway Chess Women 2026 Champion. 👑 In the battle for the remaining podium spots, both Zhu Jiner and Anna Muzychuk delivered clutch final-round wins to secure 2nd and 3rd place respectively🔥 A strong finish to an intense tournament! #NorwayChess 📷 Norway Chess / Tor Nilssen & Kjetil V. Tveito

Both events of #NorwayChess 2026 are a wrap, with Praggnanandhaa & Assaubayeva clinching the titles!