The 2022

European Individual Chess Championship The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken place on a yearly basis. Apart from determining the European champions (open and women's) ...

was held from 27 March to 6 April 2022 in

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. In open competition,

Matthias Blübaum Matthias Blübaum (born 18 April 1997) is a German chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster. He won the European Individual Chess Championship in 2022 and in 2025. Blübaum began playing chess at the age of six and emerged as part of the ''Prinze ...

and

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tied for first, with Blübaum securing the gold and Sargissian the silver via tie-breaking criteria. Multiple players tied for third place, with Ivan Šarić receiving the bronze via tie-breaking criteria. In the women's competition, medalists were

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Nurgyul Salimova Nurgyul Salimova ( Bulgarian: Нургюл Салимова; ; born 2 June 2003) is a Bulgarian chess player. She was awarded the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. Salimova won the Bulgarian Women's Chess Cham ...

, and

Nataliya Buksa Nataliya Ihorivna Buksa (; born November 6, 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player. Career She won the Girls' World Junior Chess Championship in 2015. By doing so she became a Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and qualified for the Women's World Chess Champ ...

for gold, silver, and bronze, respectively.

Zdenko Kožul Zdenko Kožul (born 21 May 1966) is a Croatian chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster and was the 2006 European champion. Chess career Born in the north-western Bosnian town of Bihać (then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia), Ko ...

won gold among senior players.

Results

The top eight finishers after all 11 rounds of the open competition were: Cheparinov competed under the flag of the European Chess Union.

References

{{European championships in 2022

Chess in Slovenia

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