€29.90 A chance to face the very best The fourth stage of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour will be played on March 13-21, with Magnus Carlsen heading a 16-player field which will include tour leaders Teimour Radjabov and Wesley So. The organizers have decided to once again use the name ‘Magnus Carlsen Invitational’, the same name used in the first online event of the 2020 online tour organized due to the pandemic. Before Tuesday’s qualifier, fourteen players had already been confirmed to participate, with Anish Giri and David Anton getting spots based on popular vote. The remaining two spots, however, were to be decided in a 4-player double round robin qualifier. Johan-Sebastian Christiansen was supposed to participate, but a last-minute incident prevented him from playing (the following is the first tweet of a six-part thread):