Chess for all
Annually, Stavanger is host to one of the world’s most prestigious chess tournaments, Norway Chess, that hosts the top 10 rated players in the world.
Every year, the chess elite meets in Stavanger to participate in this action-packed tournament, and for many players it is perhaps the most attractive tournament they participate in.
Through the Norway Chess tournament, Stavanger has become one of the world’s chess metropolises. This annual event has become an important arena for Stavanger and the rest of the region.
Norway Chess has played a major part in making chess available for all, especially by:
- commercializing chess as a sport
- introducing chess on national tv
- contribute to the development of chess
- utilizing the opportunity chess gives to connect people from all backgrounds, cultures, ages and languages
- focusing on sponsors and high level of professionalism
During the Norway Chess tournament there is also an open tournament, and several other side-events open to all. Learn more about this and how to join a local chess club in the Stavanger area.
All ages are welcome!
For more information, please contact Inger Tone Ødegård
This event is free of charge, but you have to enroll. If you have a company/ University e-mail address, please use your formal e-mail. Only one person per e-mail.
Program
18.00 Registration.
18.15 Welcome, by Inger Tone Ødegård, Stavanger Chamber of Commerce.
18.20 Chess for all ages and levels, by Stig Jerlow Jacobsen, Chairman Stavanger Sjakklubb and Tallak Uberg Nærland, Leader of Sandnes Chess Club
18.50 Norway Chess, by Benedicte Westre Skog, Project Manager – Norway Chess.
19.10 "Tournament" example.
19.30 Individual Q & A.
20.00 Closing.
Speakers
Benedicte Westre Skog
Benedicte has an international background spending big parts of her life abroad living and studying in different countries. She holds an MSc in International Development from Utrecht University, the Netherlands and an interdisciplinary BA Honors degree from Dalhousie University, Canada. She has also studied in India, Mexico and Norway. She has been working with Norway Chess since 2015 as project manager after joining the board in 2014.
Stig Jerlow Jacobsen
Stig is chairman of Stavanger chess club and works daily in Equinor's IT department.
Tallak Uberg Nærland
Tallak started playing when he was 9 years old in the local chess club at his primary school. As chess career highlights, he represented Norway in the European Championship twice. Nowadays Tallak plays chess more for the fun, and spend much of his time organizing chess events such as club nights at Sandnes Chess Club every Tuesday. Tallak is a teacher at a junior high school in Sandnes.