Wikipedia

2022 in chess

2022 tournaments edit

Supertournaments edit

Tournament City System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Third
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 edit

Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
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 edit

Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
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 edit

Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
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 edit

Tournament City System Dates Teams Winner Runner-up Third
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 edit

Tournament City System Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
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 edit

See also edit

References edit

  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 edit

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2022_in_chess&oldid=1215541794"