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Preliminaries - Day 1
The Meltwater Champions Chess Tour is the successor to the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. It consists of 10 events taking place over 10 months, with the prize fund rising from $1 million to $1.5 million. Six Regular tournaments, three Majors and the Finals are taking place from November 2020 until September 2021.
The preliminary stage is a 16-player all-play-all tournament, with five rounds played per day on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
In the knockout stage, each encounter will be decided over two days. On day 1, there will be four rapid games, and if the match ends 2-2 it will simply be a draw (there doesn’t have to be a winner). On day 2, another 4-game match will be held. If both matches are drawn, or the players have traded wins, then shortly after the second match there will be a playoff: two blitz games followed, if needed, by Armageddon.
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The fourth event of the Champions Chess Tour, the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, will take place on March 13-21, with sixteen players fighting for Tour points and a share of the US$ 220,000 prize fund. According to their rapid ratings, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Hikaru Nakamura are the top seeds.
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The first Major of the Champions Chess Tour
The Champions Chess Tour is the successor to the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. It consists of 10 events taking place over 10 months, with the prize fund rising from $1 million to $1.5 million. Six Regular tournaments, three Majors and the Finals will be played from November 2020 until September 2021.
Wesley So won the first event of the series by defeating Magnus Carlsen in a thrilling final match played on the world champion’s 30th birthday. Since the eight players who qualified to the knockout stage of the previous tournament automatically get a ticket in the next event, both Carlsen and So will meet again in the first Major of the series.