Candidates Tournament 2022

The 2022 Candidates Tournament will be an eight-player chess tournament, with the winner qualifying for a match for the World Chess Championship 2023.

Candidates Tournament 2022
Dates2022
Competitors8

On 8 December 2021 FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich announced that the Candidates was planned to be held in the (northern) summer of 2022, with the World Championship to follow in early 2023.[1] The format has not been announced, but every Candidates tournament since 2013 has been a double round-robin tournament.

Participants

The eight players to qualify will be:[2]

Qualification method Player
2021 World Championship runner-up Ian Nepomniachtchi
Candidate nominated by FIDE Teimour Radjabov[lower-alpha 1]
The top two finishers at the Chess World Cup 2021[lower-alpha 2] Jan-Krzysztof Duda (winner)
Sergey Karjakin (runner-up)
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 Alireza Firouzja (winner)
Fabiano Caruana (runner-up)
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022[lower-alpha 3] TBD
TBD

In a departure from preceding Candidates Tournaments, no player will qualify through rating.[3]

Notes
  1. Radjabov had qualified for the previous Candidates Tournament, but withdrew after his request to postpone the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic was refused. With the postponement of the 2020 Candidates Tournament at the halfway point due to the pandemic until its resumption in 2021, Radjabov called for his reinstatement into the tournament. FIDE decided that it was appropriate to instead give Radjabov a direct entry into the 2022 Candidates.
  2. The regulations stated that it would be the top two finishers other than Carlsen, Nepomniachtchi and Radjabov. (And that if all three finished in the top four of the World Cup, then the only World Cup qualifier would be the other player in the top four; and three qualifiers would come from the Grand Prix.) However none of these players reached the World Cup final: Nepomniachtchi and Radjabov elected not to play, and Carlsen lost at the semi-final stage.
  3. The 2021 World Champion is not allowed to take part in the Grand Prix. Other players who have already qualified for the Candidates "should give up their qualification spot" if they take part in the Grand Prix.[2] Thus, the participants in the Grand Prix should not yet be qualified for the Candidates.

References
  1. Матч на первенство мира по шахматам ФИДЕ 2021. 10 партия., FIDE YouTube channel, December 8 2021
  2. FIDE announces qualification paths for Candidates Tournament 2022, FIDE, 25 May 2021
  3. Qualification criteria for the Candidates announced, Radjabov gets a spot, Chessbase, May 24, 2021

See also
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