New in Chess Classic is the 6th event of Meltwater Champion Chess Tour. The preliminaries event is a single round-robin and features 16 top players. Top 8 players from the preliminary will qualify for the knockout event. The time control is rapid, with 15 minutes and a 10 second increment per move.

Dates: 23th to 25th May (Preliminaries) , 26th to 31nd May (Knockout)
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Final Qualifier Standings

Rank	Name	Score	Rating
1	Caruana, Fabiano	10/15	2820
2	Giri, Anish	9/15	2780
3	Nakamura, Hikaru	9/15	2736
4	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	9/15	2760
5	So, Wesley	9/15	2770
6	Carlsen, Magnus	8½/15	2847
7	Radjabov, Teimour	8½/15	2765
8	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	8/15	2792
9	Aronian, Levon	8/15	2781
10	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	7½/15	2770
11	Firouzja, Alireza	7/15	2759
12	Svidler, Peter	7/15	2714
13	Ding, Liren	7/15	2799
14	Dubov, Daniil	6/15	2710
15	Grischuk, Alexander	5/15	2776
16	Pichot, Alan	1½/15	2630

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