New in Chess Classic is the 5th 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: 24th to 26th April (Preliminaries) , 27th April to 2nd May (Knockout)
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Standings after Round 15

Place	Name	Score	Rapid Elo Rating
1	Carlsen, Magnus	10½/15	2881
2	Nakamura, Hikaru	9½/15	2829
3	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	9½/15	2761
4	So, Wesley	9/15	2741
5	Aronian, Levon	9/15	2778
6	Firouzja, Alireza	8½/15	2703
7	Le, Quang Liem	8½/15	2744
8	Radjabov, Teimour	8½/15	2758
9	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	8/15	2786
10	Tari, Aryan	7/15	2531
11	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	7/15	2636
12	Praggnanandhaa R	7/15	1781
13	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	7/15	2774
14	Karjakin, Sergey	6½/15	2709
15	Jones, Gawain C B	3/15	2615
16	Christiansen, Johan-Sebastian	1½/15	2521

Schedule

Round	Date	Time (UTC)
1 to 5	24 April, 2021	17:00
6 to 10	25 April, 2021	17:00
11 to 15	26 April, 2021	17:00

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