[1] It was won by Sergey Karjakin, with Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura tied for second place.
Games were streamed live with Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam and Simen Agdestein as commentators.
[6] The tournament was arranged by the foundation Norway Chess, with economic support from local businesses and municipalities and the Rogaland county.
The cost of the arrangement was predicted to be about 5 million Norwegian kroner (approximately 672,000 euro),[7] of which about half is for the prizes for the participants.
[8] Vladimir Kramnik was originally among the expected participants, but in April 2013 it was announced that he had withdrawn and was replaced with Peter Svidler.
The ten participants were Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Anish Giri and Simen Agdestein.
[16] Agdestein qualified by defeating Jon Ludvig Hammer in a rapid match that took place from 26 to 27 April 2014.
The players were Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Grischuk, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Jon Ludvig Hammer.
[22] Jon Ludvig Hammer won the event to qualify as the wildcard for the main tournament.
[27] The fourth Norway Chess Tournament took place from 18 to 30 April 2016 with a new title sponsor, Altibox.
[29] The players were initially announced as Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Veselin Topalov, Sergey Karjakin, Pavel Eljanov, Pentala Harikrishna, and a wildcard to be determined in a qualifying tournament.
It was a double round robin consisting of two stages: the first leg was played with a classical time control and 3–1–0 scoring system; the second leg was played with a rapid time control and 2–1–0 scoring system.
Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Vladimir Kramnik, and Levon Aronian finished in the top 5 and, thus, earned their extra white game.
[36] However, by the time the tournament was held two players had dropped out of the top ten (Karjakin and Giri; their replacements Mamedyarov and Ding Liren did not play).
Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Levon Aronian, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik finished in the top 5 and earned their extra white game.
[41] On 31 May 2018, Ding Liren fractured his hip bone in a bicycle accident and underwent surgery the next morning.