The first tournament of the 2022 Meltwater Championship Chess Tour has started on 19^th February and the first round of preliminaries has already seen plenty of action with Ding Liren in the lead. As usual with big Masters events, you can follow the action on our own website by going on our home page and scrolling all the way to the bottom or just follow this link.

The Meltwater Tour is the biggest online chess championship with prize pot of over $1 000 000 and this year it will consist of 9 events. Unsurprisingly the richest pot in online chess has attracted the biggest names in the game, including the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and the top Grandmasters such as Ding Liren, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Aleksander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura and many more. This year the tour kicks off with Airthings Masters which will include 16 players, including the Rapid champions Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Alexandra Kosteniuk.

The players will play in a preliminary 15 game round robin and the top 8 players will advance to the knockout stage. Follow all of the action on our website!