(A version of this post was originally published here.)

More details here. As the Meltwater tour has been around for a while now, many of you know the basic format: it’s a two-stage, 16 player, rapid event. A round robin cuts the field to eight players, who then engage in a series of knockout matches until there’s a winner; one-day matches for the quarter-finals and the semi-finals, and a two-day match for the finals.

As always with the Meltwater tour, the field includes many of the world’s absolute elite. This time around, Candidates Teimour Radjabov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and Richard Rapport headline the field, along with Lenier Dominguez, Levon Aronian, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.

Three days to go.