2022 tournaments
Supertournaments
Open events
FIDE events
2023–25
World Championship
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cycle qualification events
Team events
Rapid and blitz tournaments
Deaths
* 24 January –
Mark Tseitlin
Mark Tseitlin ( he, מארק צייטלין; russian: Марк Данилович Цейтлин, translit=Mark Danilovich Tseitlin; 23 September 1943 – 25 January 2022) was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of Inter ...
* 28 January –
Gilles Mirallès
Gilles Mirallès (8 February 1966 – 28 January 2022) was a French chess grandmaster.
Biography
Mirallès became a Grandmaster in 1997 after winning the French Junior Chess Championship in 1982 and the French Chess Championship in 1986 and 1 ...
* 14 February –
Borislav Ivkov
Borislav Ivkov (12 November 1933 – 14 February 2022) was a Serbian chess Grandmaster. He was a World championship candidate in 1965, and played in four more Interzonal tournaments, in 1967, 1970, 1973, and 1979.
Ivkov was a three-time Yugos ...
* 7 May —
Yuri Averbakh
Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (russian: Ю́рий Льво́вич Аверба́х; 8 February 1922 – 7 May 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster and author. He was chairman of the USSR Chess Federation from 1973 to 1978. He was the first centenari ...
* 13 July —
Igor Naumkin
Igor Naumkin (10 August 1965 – 13 July 2022) was a Russian chess Grandmaster.
Career
He earned his International Master title in 1988 and his Grandmaster title in 1990. Notable victories included over ex-world champion Mikhail Tal, and Da ...
* 14 July —
Nikolai Krogius
Nikolai Vladimirovich Krogius (; 22 July 1930 – 14 July 2022) was a Russian chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter (1985), psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator, and author. He won several tournament titles at Sochi and in Eastern ...
* 2 September —
Mišo Cebalo
* 12 October —
Konstantin Landa
Konstantin Landa (; 22 May 1972 – October 2022) was a Russian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 and FIDE World Cup 2007. In 2011 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
Landa's best tourname ...
* 4 December —
Alex Sherzer
* 12 December —
Iván Faragó
Iván Faragó (1 April 1946 – 12 December 2022) was a Hungarian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the grandmaster title in 1976, won the Hungarian championship in 1986 and was an active player for over fifty years. He played in the German Bu ...
See also
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Carlsen–Niemann controversy
During the Sinquefield Cup in September 2022, a controversy arose involving chess grandmasters Magnus Carlsen, then world champion, and Hans Niemann. Carlsen, after surprisingly losing in their third-round matchup, dropped out of the tournament ...
References
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