2022 in chess

Years in chess
2022 in sports

2022 tournaments

Supertournaments

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

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

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

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

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

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

See also

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