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    2022 in chess

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    2022 tournaments

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    Supertournaments

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    Tournament City System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Third
    Tata Steel Masters Netherlands Wijk aan Zee Round robin 15–31 Jan 14 (12) Norway Magnus Carlsen Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Hungary Richard Rapport
    Tata Steel Challengers Netherlands Wijk aan Zee Round robin 15–31 Jan 14 (0) India Arjun Erigaisi Czech Republic Thai Dai Van Nguyen Denmark Jonas Buhl Bjerre
    Superbet Chess Classic Romania Bucharest Round robin 3–15 May 10 (9) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Wesley So Levon Aronian
    Norway Chess Norway Stavanger Round robin 30 May – 12 Jun 10 (9) Norway Magnus Carlsen Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov India Viswanathan Anand
    Prague Chess Festival Czech Republic Prague Round robin 7–18 Jun 10 (6) India Pentala Harikrishna Vietnam Le Quang Liem Czech Republic Thai Dai Van Nguyen
    United States Sam Shankland
    Czech Republic David Navara
    2022 Candidates Tournament Spain Madrid Double round robin 16 Jun – 8 Jul 20 8 (8) FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi China Ding Liren Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov
    Biel Chess Festival Switzerland Biel Round robin 11–23 Jul 8 (2) Vietnam Le Quang Liem FIDE Andrey Esipenko India Gukesh D
    Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting Germany Dortmund Round robin 16–25 Jul 4 (1) Germany Dmitrij Kollars India Viswanathan Anand England Michael Adams
    Sinquefield Cup United States St. Louis Round robin 1–16 Sep 10 (10) France Alireza Firouzja FIDE Ian Nepomniachtchi United States Wesley So
    United States Fabiano Caruana

    Open events

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    Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
    Gibraltar Chess Festival Gibraltar Gibraltar Swiss 24 Jan – 4 Feb 22 Algeria Bilel Bellahcene
    Hungary Balazs Csonka    		 – Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk
    England Ravi Haria
    Italy Sabino Brunello
    Reykjavik Open Iceland Reykjavík Swiss 6–13 Apr 238 India R Praggnanandhaa Netherlands Max Warmerdam
    Denmark Mads Andersen
    Iceland Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson
    United States Abhimanyu Mishra     		–
    Paracin Open Serbia Paracin Swiss 8–16 Jul 160 India R Praggnanandhaa FIDE Alexandr Predke Kazakhstan Alisher Suleymenov
    India Muthaiah AL

    FIDE events

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    Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
    FIDE Grand Prix Berlin Germany Berlin Knockout 4–17 Feb 16 United States Hikaru Nakamura United States Levon Aronian Hungary Richard Rapport
    United States Leinier Domínguez
    FIDE Grand Prix Belgrade Serbia Belgrade Knockout 1–14 Mar 16 Hungary Richard Rapport  Dmitry Andreikin (FIDE)  Anish Giri (NED)
     Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)
    FIDE Grand Prix Berlin Germany Berlin Knockout 22 Mar – 4 Apr 16 United States Wesley So United States Hikaru Nakamura  Amin Tabatabaei (IRI)
     Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE)
    World Rapid Chess Championship Kazakhstan Almaty Swiss 26–28 Dec 178 Norway Magnus Carlsen Germany Vincent Keymer United States Fabiano Caruana
    World Blitz Chess Championship Kazakhstan Almaty Swiss 29–30 Dec 176 Norway Magnus Carlsen United States Hikaru Nakamura Armenia Haik M. Martirosyan

    2023–25 World Championship cycle qualification events

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    Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
    European Individual Championship Slovenia Brežice Swiss 27 Mar – 6 Apr 317 Germany Matthias Blübaum Armenia Gabriel Sargissian Croatia Ivan Šarić
    American Continental Championship El Salvador San Salvador Swiss 2–10 May 117 United States Timur Gareyev United States Christopher Yoo Cuba Yasser Quesada Pérez

    Team events

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    Tournament City System Dates Teams Winner Runner-up Third
    44th Chess Olympiad (open event) India Chennai Swiss 26 Jul – 9 Aug 188  Uzbekistan  Armenia India-2
    44th Chess Olympiad (women event) Swiss 26 Jul – 9 Aug 162  Ukraine  Georgia  India
    2022 FIDE World Team Championship Israel Jerusalem Groups and play-offs 20–25 Nov 12  China  Uzbekistan  Spain

    Rapid and blitz tournaments

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    Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
    Poland Rapid & Blitz Poland Warsaw Round robin 17–24 May 10 Jan-Krzysztof Duda Levon Aronian
    Viswanathan Anand     		–
    Croatia Rapid & Blitz Croatia Zagreb Round robin 18–25 Jul 10 Magnus Carlsen Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
    France Alireza Firouzja     		–
    Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz United States Saint Louis Round robin 24–31 Aug 10 France Alireza Firouzja United States Hikaru Nakamura France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
    United States Fabiano Caruana
    Norway Chess Blitz Norway Stavanger Round robin 30–31 May 10 United States Wesley So Norway Magnus Carlsen Netherlands Anish Giri
    India Viswanathan Anand
    Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

    Deaths

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    • 24 January – Mark Tseitlin[1]
    • 28 January – Gilles Mirallès[2]
    • 14 February – Borislav Ivkov[3]
    • 7 May — Yuri Averbakh[4]
    • 13 July — Igor Naumkin[5]
    • 14 July — Nikolai Krogius[6]
    • 2 September — Mišo Cebalo
    • 12 October — Konstantin Landa[7]
    • 4 December — Alex Sherzer[8]
    • 12 December — Iván Faragó[9]

    See also

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    • Carlsen–Niemann controversy

    References

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    1. ^ "Twitter – Chess Pathshala". Twitter. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
    2. ^ "Gilles Mirallès, grand contributeur au développement des échecs, nous a quittés". Europe Échecs (in French). 31 January 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
    3. ^ "Tuga, Srbija ostala bez VELEMAJSTORA pred kojim su padali svi svetski velikani: Preminuo slavni Bora Ivkov". Sportal.
    4. ^ "Yuri Averbakh passes away at age 100". chess24.com. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
    5. ^ "Chess world mourns GM Igor Naumkin". Times of Malta. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
    6. ^ "Nikolai Krogius (1930-2022)". FIDE. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
    7. ^ "Ушел из жизни Константин Ланда". Федерация шахмат России (in Russian). Retrieved 12 October 2022.
    8. ^ "Read Dr. Alexander "Alex" Sherzer's Obituary & Leave Condolences". everloved.com. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
    9. ^ Népszava. "Meghalt Faragó Iván nemzetközi sakknagymester". nepszava.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 1 January 2023.
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