2022 in chess

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 BjerreSuperbet Chess Classic BucharestRound robin3–15 May10 (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 Navara2022 Candidates Tournament MadridDouble round robin16 Jun – 8 Jul 208 (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 ThirdGibraltar 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 ParacinSwiss8–16 Jul160 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 FIDE Grand Prix Berlin Berlin Knockout 22 Mar – 4 Apr 16 Wesley So Hikaru Nakamura 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 India-2 44th Chess Olympiad (women event) Swiss 26 Jul – 9 Aug 162 2022 FIDE World Team Championship Jerusalem Groups and play-offs 20–25 Nov 12

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 CaruanaNorway Chess Blitz StavangerRound robin30–31 May10 Wesley So Magnus Carlsen Anish Giri Viswanathan Anand Shakhriyar Mamedyarov

Deaths 24 January – Mark Tseitlin 28 January – Gilles Mirallès 14 February – Borislav Ivkov 7 May — Yuri Averbakh 13 July — Igor Naumkin 14 July — Nikolai Krogius 2 September — Mišo Cebalo 12 October — Konstantin Landa 4 December — Alex Sherzer 12 December — Iván Faragó

See also Carlsen–Niemann controversy

References

External links Calendar by FIDE 2022 Chess Calendar by chess24.com Chess Calendar by Lichess Chess Calendar by Chess.com