2022 in chess
# 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 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 | Reykjavik | 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 | Suleymenov Alisher 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) | Chennai | 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

* 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
