2022 in chess

Overview of the events of 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

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Tata Steel Masters |  Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 15–31 Jan | 14 (12) |  Magnus Carlsen |  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |  Richard Rapport
Tata Steel Challengers |  Wijk aan Zee | Round robin | 15–31 Jan | 14 (0) |  Arjun Erigaisi |  Thai Dai Van Nguyen |  Jonas Buhl Bjerre
Superbet Chess Classic |  Bucharest | Round robin  | 3–15 May  | 10 (9)  |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |  Wesley So |  Levon Aronian
Norway Chess |  Stavanger | Round robin | 30 May – 12 Jun | 10 (9) |  Magnus Carlsen |  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov |  Viswanathan Anand
Prague Chess Festival |  Prague | Round robin | 7–18 Jun | 10 (6) |  Pentala Harikrishna |  Le Quang Liem |  Thai Dai Van Nguyen
Sam Shankland
David Navara
2022 Candidates Tournament |  Madrid | Double round robin  | 16 Jun – 8 Jul 20  | 8 (8)  |  Ian Nepomniachtchi |  Ding Liren |  Teimour Radjabov
Biel Chess Festival |  Biel | Round robin | 11–23 Jul | 8 (2) |  Le Quang Liem |  Andrey Esipenko |  Gukesh D
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting |  Dortmund | Round robin | 16–25 Jul | 4 (1) |  Dmitrij Kollars |  Viswanathan Anand |  Michael Adams
Sinquefield Cup |  St. Louis | Round robin | 1–16 Sep | 10 (10) |  Alireza Firouzja |  Ian Nepomniachtchi |  Wesley So
Fabiano Caruana

### Open events

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Gibraltar Chess Festival |  Gibraltar | Swiss | 24 Jan – 4 Feb | 22 |  Bilel Bellahcene
Balazs Csonka | – |  Mariya Muzychuk
Ravi Haria
Sabino Brunello
Reykjavik Open |  Reykjavík | Swiss | 6–13 Apr | 238 |  R Praggnanandhaa |  Max Warmerdam
Mads Andersen
Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson
Abhimanyu Mishra | –
Paracin Open |  Paracin | Swiss  | 8–16 Jul  | 160  |  R Praggnanandhaa |  Alexandr Predke |  Alisher Suleymenov
Muthaiah AL

### FIDE events

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Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third

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FIDE Grand Prix Berlin |  Berlin | Knockout | 4–17 Feb | 16 |  Hikaru Nakamura |  Levon Aronian |  Richard Rapport
Leinier Domínguez
FIDE Grand Prix Belgrade |  Belgrade | Knockout | 1–14 Mar | 16 |  Richard Rapport |  Dmitry Andreikin (FIDE) |  Anish Giri (NED)
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)
FIDE Grand Prix Berlin |  Berlin | Knockout | 22 Mar – 4 Apr | 16 |  Wesley So |  Hikaru Nakamura |  Amin Tabatabaei (IRI)
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE)
World Rapid Chess Championship |  Almaty | Swiss | 26–28 Dec | 178 |  Magnus Carlsen |  Vincent Keymer |  Fabiano Caruana
World Blitz Chess Championship |  Almaty | Swiss | 29–30 Dec | 176 |  Magnus Carlsen |  Hikaru Nakamura |  Haik M. Martirosyan

### 2023–25 World Championship cycle qualification events

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Tournament | City | System | Dates | Players | Winner | Runner-up | Third

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European Individual Championship |  Brežice | Swiss | 27 Mar – 6 Apr | 317 |  Matthias Blübaum |  Gabriel Sargissian |  Ivan Šarić
American Continental Championship |  San Salvador | Swiss | 2–10 May | 117 |  Timur Gareyev |  Christopher Yoo |  Yasser Quesada Pérez

### Team events

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Tournament | City | System | Dates | Teams | Winner | Runner-up | Third

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44th Chess Olympiad (open event) |  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 |  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

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Poland Rapid & Blitz |  Warsaw | Round robin | 17–24 May | 10 |  Jan-Krzysztof Duda |  Levon Aronian
Viswanathan Anand | –
Croatia Rapid & Blitz |  Zagreb | Round robin | 18–25 Jul | 10 |  Magnus Carlsen |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Alireza Firouzja | –
Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz |  Saint Louis | Round robin | 24–31 Aug | 10 |  Alireza Firouzja |  Hikaru Nakamura |  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Fabiano Caruana
Norway Chess Blitz  |  Stavanger | Round robin  | 30–31 May  | 10  |  Wesley So |  Magnus Carlsen |  Anish Giri
Viswanathan Anand
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.

## External links

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