2022 in chess
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Supertournaments
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 |
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| 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 |
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| Croatia Rapid & Blitz | Zagreb | Round robin | 18–25 Jul | 10 | Magnus Carlsen | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Alireza Firouzja |
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| 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[1]
- 28 January – Gilles Mirallès[2]
- 14 February – Borislav Ivkov[3]
- 7 May — Yuri Averbakh[4]
- 13 July — Igor Naumkin[5]
- 14 July — Nikolai Krogius[6]
- 2 September — Mišo Cebalo
- 12 October — Konstantin Landa[7]
- 4 December — Alex Sherzer[8]
- 12 December — Iván Faragó[9]
