Champions Chess Tour 2022

Each Regular tournament will have 16 participants. In all Regular tournaments but the first, the top 8 players from the previous tournament (Regular or Major) will be invited. The remaining spots are filled by wildcards chosen by the organizer.

Each Major tournament will have 8 participants: the top two players of each of the previous two Regular tournaments, the top two players in the overall tour standings, and two wildcards. The tour regulations do not specify what happens if these groups of players overlap.

Three different time controls are used in the tour:

• In rapid games, each player has 15 minutes, plus a 10-second increment for each move.
• In blitz games, each player has 5 minutes, plus a 3-second increment for each move.
• In Armageddon games, White has 5 minutes and Black has 4 minutes, with no increment.

Each Regular tournament consists of a preliminary stage with 15 rounds and a knockout stage with three rounds. In the preliminary stage, 16 players participate in a round-robin spanning four days, with each player playing one rapid game against each other player, for a total of 120 games. In contrast to the previous season, a win scores 3 points and a draw scores 1 point. The eight players with the most points advance to the next stage. Ties are resolved according to the following criteria, in that order:

1. Result in the game(s) between the tied players
2. Number of wins (including forfeits)
3. Sonneborn–Berger score
4. Koya score

In the quarterfinals and semifinals, each matchup consists of four rapid games played on a single day, with one point for a win and half a point for a draw. Ties are resolved by a playoff consisting of two blitz games. If these also end in a tie, an Armageddon game is played; if this ends in a draw, the Black player wins the round. The player who ranked higher in the preliminary stage gets to pick a colour.

The final consists of two matches of four rapid games each, played on successive days. Each match is scored separately. A tie (if each player wins one match or both matches are tied) is resolved as in the other knockout rounds. There is no match for third place.

Each Major tournament will be a round-robin tournament among eight players, without a knockout stage. Each pair of players plays a match of four rapid games as in the knockout stage of Regular tournaments, including blitz and Armageddon tie-breaks if necessary. If the match is decided in the rapid games, the winner gets 3 match points; if it is decided in tie-breaks, the winner gets 2 match points and the loser 1 match point. Ties in the total match points at the end of the tournament are resolved according to the following criteria, in that order:

1. Result in the match(es) between the tied players
2. Number of match wins (including forfeits)

There is no longer a distinction between tour points and prize money as in the previous season. The player who accumulates the most prize money over the course of the tour wins the tour.[1] The winner is awarded an additional $50,000.

The total prize pool for a Regular tournament is $150,000, of which $60,000 are distributed as follows:[3]

In other words, $2,000 are awarded for reaching the quarterfinals, $4,000 for winning a quarterfinal, $9,000 for winning a semifinal and $10,000 for winning a final.

The remaining $90,000 can be won in the preliminary stage, with $250 being awarded per point, that is, $750 for a win and $250 for a draw. The remaining $250 in case of a draw accumulate in a bonus pot that starts out with $20,000 and is used for performance awards at the end of the season.

The total prize pool for a Major tournament is $210,000, with $2,500 being awarded for each match point. A player with less than 2 match points nevertheless receives $5,000, but only the prize money earned with match points is included in the tour standings.

Prize money is shown in thousands of US dollars. An asterisk denotes a Major tournament.

Pos	Name	Airthings Masters	Charity Cup	Oslo Esports Cup*	Total
1	Magnus Carlsen	31¼	32¼	30	93½
2	Jan-Krzysztof Duda	4¼	20¾	35	60
3	Lê Quang Liêm	7½	14	32½	54
4	Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa	4¾	5¼	30	40
5	Jorden van Foreest		8¾	25	33¾
6	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	4¼		27½	31¾
7	Anish Giri	5¼		22½	27¾
8	Ian Nepomniachtchi	22¼			22¼
9	Eric Hansen	7¾	4	7½	19¼
	Ding Liren	7½	11¾		19¼
11	Andrey Esipenko	12			12
	Vladislav Artemiev	12			12
13	Hans Niemann	3¾	7½		11¼
14	David Antón Guijarro		8		8
15	Vincent Keymer	7½			7½
16	David Navara		7¼		7¼
17	Richárd Rapport		5¼		5¼
	Levon Aronian	5¼			5¼
19	Vidit Gujrathi		5		5
20	Nodirbek Abdusattorov	4¾			4¾
21	Pentala Harikrishna		4		4
22	Gawain Jones		2½		2½
	Ju Wenjun		2½		2½
24	Alexandra Kosteniuk	¾			¾
25	Lei Tingjie		½		½

The bonus pot, which started off with $20,000, has grown to $40,000 due to 80 draws in preliminary stages.

This initial tournament started on February 19 and ended on February 26.

This tournament started on March 19 and ended on March 26.

This tournament started on April 22 and ended on April 28. For each match, the table shows the match points gained, with the match result in parentheses.

	Name	Elo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Points
1	Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland)	2769	–	1 (2 : 4)	0 (½ : 2½)	3 (2½ : ½)	2 (4 : 2)	3 (2½ : ½)	2 (4 : 2)	3 (2½ : ½)	14
2	Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)	2765	2 (4 : 2)	–	3 (2½ : 1½)	0 (½ : 2½)	0 (1½ : 2½)	2 (3½ : 2½)	3 (2½ : ½)	3 (2½ : ½)	13
3	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	2851	3 (2½ : ½)	0 (1½ : 2½)	–	3 (3 : 0)	0 (½ : 2½)	0 (1½ : 2½)	3 (2½ : ½)	3 (2½ : ½)	12
4	Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (India)	2685	0 (½ : 2½)	3 (2½ : ½)	0 (0 : 3)	–	3 (2½ : ½)	3 (2½ : ½)	0 (½ : 2½)	3 (2½ : ½)	12
5	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)	2724	1 (2 : 4)	3 (2½ : 1½)	3 (2½ : ½)	0 (½ : 2½)	–	2 (3½ : 2½)	2 (3½ : 2½)	0 (1½ : 2½)	11
6	Jorden van Foreest (Netherlands)	2744	0 (½ : 2½)	1 (2½ : 3½)	3 (2½ : 1½)	0 (½ : 2½)	1 (2½ : 3½)	–	2 (4 : 2)	3 (2½ : 1½)	10
7	Anish Giri (Netherlands)	2759	1 (2 : 4)	0 (½ : 2½)	0 (½ : 2½)	3 (2½ : ½)	1 (2½ : 3½)	1 (2 : 4)	–	3 (2½ : 1½)	9
8	Eric Hansen (Canada)	2651	0 (½ : 2½)	0 (½ : 2½)	0 (½ : 2½)	0 (½ : 2½)	3 (2½ : 1½)	0 (1½ : 2½)	0 (1½ : 2½)	–	3