The next tournament from the Meltwater Chess Championship 2022 – Oslo Esport Cup has started today and as customary, you will be able to follow all of the action on our website following this link.

The third tournament from the most popular online chess tournament is the first Major tournament this year, as stated by the Meltwater Champions organisers. The format of the tournament will be different than the Airthings Masters and the Charity Cup and will include 7 days of games where all players will play in a Round-Robin format where each match will consist of four rapid games. As usual, some of the best chess players in the world will participate, with the line-up including the World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen and the rising start GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda.

The world champion and arguably best chess player to have ever lived GM Carlsen is looking to finish the first Triade of the tournaments with a perfect 3/3 as he managed to beat GM Duda and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in the finals of Airthings Masters and Charity Cup. His first game will be against the Polish GM on 22/04/2022.

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!