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Years in chess
2022 in sports

2022 tournaments

Supertournaments

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

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 Reykjavik 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 Suleymenov Alisher
India Muthaiah AL

FIDE events

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

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

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

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

See also

References

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