The FIDE Grand Prix 2022 was a series of three chess tournaments played between 4 February and 4 April 2022.
[1] The top two finishers – Hikaru Nakamura (winner) and Richárd Rapport (runner-up) – qualified for the Candidates Tournament 2022,[2] which was the final qualification stage for the World Chess Championship 2023.
Before the tie-break stage of the last tournament was concluded, Nakamura had already gained the score to win the series, and it was already clear that no other semi-finalist could overtake Rapport for the runner-up position.
[1] Twenty-four players were originally invited to the Grand Prix:[5] Ding Liren and Dmitry Andreikin were unable to compete in the first tournament due to visa and health issues respectively, and were replaced in the first tournament by Andrey Esipenko and Radosław Wojtaszek.
In the knockout stage, tie-breaks are played if the match is tied after the 2 regular time limit games.
[12] Due to health and visa issues, Dmitry Andreikin and Ding Liren were replaced with Andrey Esipenko and Radoslaw Wojtaszek, respectively.
[14] Richárd Rapport won the second leg of the 2022 Grand Prix with Dmitry Andreikin as the runner-up.
[15] Due to personal reasons, Dmitry Andreikin withdrew from the third leg and was replaced by Andrey Esipenko.
[5] After the round-robin stage of the third tournament, the top two were confirmed to be Richárd Rapport and Hikaru Nakamura[18] as no other player could score 20 or more Grand Prix points.