Grand Chess Tour 2022

Grand Chess Tour
2022
	2022 Grand Chess Tour winner Alireza Firouzja.
Tournament information
Dates	3 May–13 September 2022
Final positions
Champion	Alireza Firouzja
Runner-up	Wesley So
3rd place	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Tournament statistics
Most tournament titles	Alireza Firouzja (2)
Prize money leader	Alireza Firouzja ($272,250)
Points leader	Alireza Firouzja (36.5)
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The Grand Chess Tour 2022 was a series of chess tournaments, which was the seventh edition of the Grand Chess Tour. It consisted of five tournaments with a total prize pool of US$1.4 million, including two tournaments with classical time control and three tournaments with faster time controls.^[1] The winner of the tour was Alireza Firouzja.

Format

The tour consisted of five tournaments, two classicals and three rapid & blitz, respectively. Rapid & Blitz tournaments consisted of two parts – rapid (2 points for win, 1 for draw) and blitz (1 point for win, 0.5 for draw). Combined result for both portions was counted in overall standings.^[2]

The tour points were awarded as follows:

Place	Points
1st	12/13*
2nd	10
3rd	8
4th	7
5th	6
6th	5
7th	4
8th	3
9th	2
10th	1

If a player wins 1st place outright (without the need for a playoff), they are awarded 13 points instead of 12.
Tour points are shared equally between tied players.

Schedule

Dates	Tournament Name	Host city
May 3–15, 2022	Superbet Chess Classic	Bucharest
May 17–24, 2022	Superbet Rapid & Blitz	Warsaw
July 18–25, 2022	SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz	Zagreb
August 24–31, 2022	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz	St. Louis
August 31 – 13 September 2022	Sinquefield Cup	St. Louis

Results

Dates	Tournament Name	Winner	Runner-Up	Third place
May 3–15, 2022	Superbet Chess Classic	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Wesley So	Levon Aronian
May 17–24, 2022	Poland Rapid & Blitz	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	Levon Aronian Viswanathan Anand	–
July 18–25, 2022	Croatia Rapid & Blitz	Magnus Carlsen	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Alireza Firouzja	–
August 24–31, 2022	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz	Alireza Firouzja	Hikaru Nakamura	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Fabiano Caruana
September 1–12, 2022	Sinquefield Cup	Alireza Firouzja	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Wesley So Fabiano Caruana

Tournaments

Superbet Chess Classic

The first leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Bucharest, Romania from 3–15 May 2022.

Superbet Chess Classic, 3–15 May Bucharest, Romania, Category XXI (2761.4)
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	TB	H2H	Wins	TPR	Tour Points
1	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2750	Does not appear	½	0	½	1	½	½	1	½	1	5½	2			2843	10
2	Wesley So (United States)	2766	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	5½	1			2841	10
3	Levon Aronian (United States)	2765	1	½	Does not appear	1	½	½	½	½	½	½	5½	0			2841	10
4	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	2753	½	½	0	Does not appear	½	1	½	0	1	½	4½		1½		2762	6
5	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2786	0	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	1	½	4½		1		2759	6
6	Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	2671	½	½	½	0	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	1	4½		½		2771	6
7	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2773	½	0	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	1	0	½	4		1		2720	3.5
8	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2804	0	½	½	1	½	½	0	Does not appear	½	½	4		0		2717	3.5
9	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	2770	½	0	½	0	0	½	1	½	Does not appear	½	3½		½	1	2680	1.5
10	Richárd Rapport (Hungary)	2776	0	½	½	½	½	0	½	½	½	Does not appear	3½		½	0	2679	1.5

Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland

The second leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Warsaw, Poland from 17–24 May 2022.

Poland Grand Chess Tour Rapid, 19–21 May 2022, Warsaw, Poland
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	Viswanathan Anand (India)	2675	Does not appear	0	1	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	14
2	Richárd Rapport (Hungary)	2785	2	Does not appear	0	0	1	2	2	2	2	2	13
3	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	2806	1	2	Does not appear	0	2	0	2	1	2	2	12
4	Wesley So (United States)	2770	0	2	2	Does not appear	1	1	1	2	1	1	11
5	Levon Aronian (United States)	2751	0	1	0	1	Does not appear	2	1	1	2	2	10
6	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2790	1	0	2	1	0	Does not appear	1	1	1	2	9
7	Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)	2647	0	0	0	1	1	1	Does not appear	1	2	1	7
8	Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine)	2573	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	Does not appear	1	2	7
9	Anton Korobov (Ukraine)	2677	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	Does not appear	2	5
10	David Gavrilescu (Romania)	2457	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	Does not appear	2

Poland Grand Chess Tour Blitz, 22–23 May 2022, Warsaw, Poland^[3]
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	H2H	Wins
1	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2744	Does not appear	½ ½	½ 1	1 ½	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 0	1 1	1 0	14
2	Levon Aronian (United States)	2773	½ ½	Does not appear	½ ½	½ 1	½ 1	1 ½	1 1	1 ½	1 ½	1 1	13½
3	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	2760	½ 0	½ ½	Does not appear	0 1	0 1	1 0	½ 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	12
4	Viswanathan Anand (India)	2758	0 ½	½ 0	1 0	Does not appear	1 ½	½ 0	½ 1	½ 1	0 ½	1 1	9½	1½
5	Wesley So (United States)	2814	0 0	½ 0	1 0	0 ½	Does not appear	1 1	1 1	0 ½	½ 1	1 ½	9½	½
6	Anton Korobov (Ukraine)	2650	0 0	0 ½	0 1	½ 1	0 0	Does not appear	0 1	½ 1	0 1	0 1	7½
7	Richárd Rapport (Hungary)	2646	0 0	0 0	½ 0	½ 0	0 0	1 0	Does not appear	0 1	1 1	½ 1	6½	3
8	Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)	2610	0 1	0 ½	0 0	½ 0	1 ½	½ 0	1 0	Does not appear	½ 0	½ ½	6½	1½	3
9	David Gavrilescu (Romania)	2367	0 0	0 ½	0 0	1 ½	½ 0	1 0	0 0	½ 1	Does not appear	½ 1	6½	1½	4
10	Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine)	2624	0 1	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 ½	1 0	½ 0	½ ½	½ 0	Does not appear	4½

Final standings

	Player	Points
1	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	24
T-2	Levon Aronian (United States)	23½
T-2	Viswanathan Anand (India)	23½
4	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	23
5	Wesley So (United States)	20½
6	Richard Rapport (Hungary)	19½
7	Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)	13½
8	Anton Korobov (Ukraine)	12½
9	Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine)	11½
10	David Gavrilescu (Romania)	8½

SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia

The third leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Zagreb, Croatia from 18–25 July 2022.

Croatia Grand Chess Tour Rapid, 20–22 July 2022, Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	Wins	SB
1	Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands)	2645	Does not appear	0	2	0	1	2	2	2	1	2	12
2	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	2847	2	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	0	1	2	2	11	3	94.00
3	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2670	0	1	Does not appear	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	11	3	86.00
4	Wesley So (United States)	2779	2	1	1	Does not appear	1	1	1	1	2	1	11	2
5	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2764	1	1	1	1	Does not appear	0	2	1	1	2	10
6	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2821	0	1	1	1	2	Does not appear	0	2	0	2	9
7	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	2699	0	2	0	1	0	2	Does not appear	1	1	1	8
8	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	2729	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	Does not appear	1	1	7
9	Ivan Šarić (Croatia)	2645	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	Does not appear	0	6
10	Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)	2627	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	2	Does not appear	5

Croatia Grand Chess Tour Blitz, 23–24 July 2022, Zagreb, Croatia
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	H2H	Wins	SB
1	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2784	Does not appear	0 1	0 ½	½ 1	½ ½	1 1	1 1	0 1	0 1	1 1	12	1	10	97.25
2	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2740	1 0	Does not appear	0 0	½ 0	½ 1	1 1	1 ½	½ 1	1 1	1 1	12	1	10	92.50
3	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	2828	1 ½	1 1	Does not appear	1 0	0 ½	0 ½	1 ½	1 ½	1 1	1 0	11½
4	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2791	½ 0	½ 1	0 1	Does not appear	½ 1	0 1	½ ½	½ 1	1 1	0 1	11
5	Wesley So (United States)	2763	½ ½	½ 0	½ 1	½ 0	Does not appear	½ 0	½ 1	1 1	0 ½	1 1	10
6	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	2729	0 0	0 0	1 ½	1 0	½ 1	Does not appear	½ 0	1 ½	½ 0	1 ½	8
7	Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)	2667	0 0	0 ½	0 ½	½ ½	½ 0	½ 0	Does not appear	1 0	1 1	0 0	7	3
8	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	2778	1 0	½ 0	0 ½	½ 0	0 0	0 ½	0 1	Does not appear	½ ½	1 1	7	2
9	Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands)	2609	1 0	0 0	0 0	0 0	1 ½	½ 1	0 0	½ ½	Does not appear	1 1	7	1
10	Ivan Šarić (Croatia)	2550	0 0	0 0	0 1	1 0	0 0	0 ½	1 1	0 0	0 0	Does not appear	4½

Final standings

	Player	Points
1	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	22½
T-2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	22
T-2	Alireza Firouzja (France)	22
T-4	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	21
T-4	Wesley So (United States)	21
6	Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands)	19
T-7	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	15
T-7	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	15
9	Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)	12
10	Ivan Šarić (Croatia)	10½

Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz

Saint Louis Grand Chess Tour Rapid, 26-28 August 2022, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	H2H	Wins
1	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2704	Does not appear	1	1	1	2	1	0	1	2	2	11	½	3
2	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2763	1	Does not appear	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	1	11	½	2
3	Sam Shankland (United States)	2616	1	1	Does not appear	2	1	0	1	1	1	2	10
4	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2795	1	1	0	Does not appear	2	1	1	1	1	1	9	1½
5	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	2695	0	0	1	0	Does not appear	2	2	1	2	1	9	1
6	Jeffery Xiong (United States)	2725	1	1	2	1	0	Does not appear	2	1	1	0	9	½
7	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2766	2	0	1	1	0	0	Does not appear	1	1	2	8
8	Levon Aronian (United States)	2728	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	Does not appear	1	0	8
9	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	2705	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	Does not appear	2	8
10	Hikaru Nakamura (United States)	2836	0	1	0	1	1	2	0	2	0	Does not appear	7

Saint Louis Grand Chess Tour Blitz, 29–30 August 2022, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	H2H	Wins
1	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2795	Does not appear	½ 1	½ 1	½ 1	1 ½	1 1	½ 1	1 ½	1 1	1 1	15
2	Hikaru Nakamura (United States)	2850	½ 0	Does not appear	1 1	1 0	½ 1	½ ½	1 1	1 1	1 1	1 1	14
3	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2847	½ 0	0 0	Does not appear	1 ½	½ ½	½ 1	0 1	½ 1	1 1	1 1	11
4	Levon Aronian (United States)	2850	½ 0	0 1	0 ½	Does not appear	1 ½	1 0	1 ½	0 ½	1 0	1 ½	9	1½
5	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2791	0 ½	½ 0	½ ½	0 ½	Does not appear	1 ½	1 ½	½ ½	1 0	½ 1	9	½
6	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	2710	0 0	½ ½	½ 0	0 1	0 ½	Does not appear	0 0	1 ½	1 1	1 1	8½
7	Jeffery Xiong (United States)	2714	½ 0	0 0	1 0	0 ½	0 ½	1 1	Does not appear	½ ½	1 0	1 ½	8	1	5
8	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2812	0 ½	0 0	½ 0	1 ½	½ ½	0 ½	½ ½	Does not appear	1 1	½ ½	8	1	3
9	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	2714	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 1	0 1	0 0	0 1	0 0	Does not appear	½ ½	4
10	Sam Shankland (United States)	2645	0 0	0 0	0 0	0 ½	½ 0	0 0	0 ½	½ ½	½ ½	Does not appear	3½

Final standings

	Player	Points
1	Alireza Firouzja (France)	26
2	Hikaru Nakamura (United States)	21
T-3	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	19
T-3	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	19
5	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	18
6	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	17½
T-7	Levon Aronian (United States)	17
T-7	Jeffery Xiong (United States)	17
9	Sam Shankland (United States)	13½
10	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	12

Sinquefield Cup

The final leg of the Grand Chess Tour was held in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States from 2–11 September 2022.

Sinquefield Cup, 2–11 September Saint Louis, Missouri, United States Category XXI (2766.6)
	Player	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	TB	H2H	Wins	SB	TPR	Tour Points
1	Alireza Firouzja (France)	2778	Does not appear	0	1	½	½	½	1	½	1	–	5	1½				2844	11
2	Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)	2792	1	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	1	½	½	0	5	½				2804	11
3	Wesley So (United States)	2771	0	½	Does not appear	1	½	1	½	½	½	–	4½		1			2799	7.5
4	Fabiano Caruana (United States)	2758	½	½	0	Does not appear	½	1	½	1	½	–	4½		0			2801	7.5
5	Leinier Domínguez (United States)	2745	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	½	½	½	½	–	4					2758	6
6	Hans Niemann (United States)	2688	½	½	0	0	½	Does not appear	½	½	1	1	3½		½	1	13.50	2775	4.5
7	Levon Aronian (United States)	2759	0	0	½	½	½	½	Does not appear	1	½	½	3½		½	1	12.75	2727	4.5
8	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	2757	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	Does not appear	½	–	3		½	0	12.50	2665	2.5
9	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	2757	0	½	½	½	½	0	½	½	Does not appear	–	3		½	0	12.25	2665	2.5
10	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	2861	–	1	–	–	–	0	½	–	–	Does not appear	—					2746	1

Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the tournament after Round 3. All his game results got annulled. See Carlsen–Niemann controversy.

Tour Standings

The wildcards (in italics) are not counted in overall standings.

Player	Superbet Chess Classic Romania May 3 – 15	Poland GCT Rapid & Blitz May 17 – 24	Croatia GCT Rapid & Blitz Jul 18 – 25	Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Aug 24 – 31	Sinquefield Cup Sep 02 – Sep 11	Total points	Prize money
Alireza Firouzja (France)	3.5		9	13	11	36.5	$272,250
Wesley So (United States)	10	6	6.5		7.5	30	$190,167
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)	10		9	7.5	2.5	29	$165,167
Fabiano Caruana (United States)	6	7		7.5	7.5	28	$108,833
Levon Aronian (United States)	10	9		3.5	4.5	27	$124,417
Ian Nepomniachtchi (FIDE)^[a]	3.5		6.5	6	11	27	$127,250
Leinier Domínguez (United States)	6		3.5	1	6	16.5	$68,833
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	1.5		3.5	5	2.5	12.5	$46,750
Richárd Rapport (Hungary)	1.5	5				6.5	$22,750
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)			WC (13)		Withdrew		$40,000
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)		WC (13)					$40,000
Hikaru Nakamura (United States)				WC (10)			$30,000
Viswanathan Anand (India)		WC (9)					$27,500
Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania)	WC (6)						$26,333
Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands)			WC (5)				$11,000
Hans Niemann (United States)					WC (4.5)		$19,750
Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)		WC (4)					$10,000
Jeffery Xiong (United States)				WC (3.5)			$9,500
Anton Korobov (Ukraine)		WC (3)					$9,000
Kirill Shevchenko (Ukraine)		WC (2)					$8,000
Sam Shankland (United States)				WC (2)			$8,000
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria)			WC (2)				$8,000
David Gavrilescu (Romania)		WC (1)					$7,000
Ivan Šarić (Croatia)			WC (1)				$7,000

Notes

^ Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag due to FIDE banning Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[4]

References

^ "2022 Grand Chess Tour".
^ "2022 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).
^ "Standings | Grand Chess Tour". grandchesstour.org. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022

[flags-5] Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag due to FIDE banning Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[4]

[1] "2022 Grand Chess Tour".

[2] "2022 GCT Tour Regulations" (PDF).

[3] "Standings | Grand Chess Tour". grandchesstour.org. Retrieved 2022-05-24.

[4] FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022

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