The 20th edition of the Delhi International Open Grandmasters Tournament will take place from 17-24 January in New Delhi. The event will be played in 10 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 Minutes plus 30 second increment from move 1 for entire game, featuring the total prize fund of ~140.000eur.
More than 100 players already registered for the tournament, with GM Maksim Chigaev, GM Abhijeet Gupta and GM Levan Pantsulaia headlining the field. Scroll down for current starting list of players
Starting rank list of players – Delhi Chess 2022:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Chigaev Maksim | FID | 2632 |
| 2 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2601 |
| 3 | GM | Pantsulaia Levan | GEO | 2597 |
| 4 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2593 |
| 5 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | IND | 2582 |
| 6 | GM | Moroni Luca Jr | ITA | 2576 |
| 7 | GM | Sivuk Vitaly | SWE | 2570 |
| 8 | GM | Azarov Sergei | FID | 2562 |
| 9 | GM | Mchedlishvili Mikheil | GEO | 2558 |
| 10 | GM | Ghosh Diptayan | IND | 2544 |
| 11 | GM | Visakh N R | IND | 2544 |
| 12 | GM | Krasenkow Michal | POL | 2541 |
| 13 | GM | David Alberto | ITA | 2518 |
| 14 | GM | Paichadze Luka | GEO | 2514 |
| 15 | GM | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2509 |
| 16 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2503 |
| 17 | GM | Mitrabha Guha | IND | 2487 |
| 18 | GM | Mirzoev Azer | AZE | 2471 |
| 19 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | BAN | 2464 |
| 20 | GM | Dzhumaev Marat | UZB | 2445 |
| 21 | IM | Audi Ameya | IND | 2401 |
| 22 | GM | Teterev Vitaly | BLR | 2377 |
| 23 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2372 |
| 24 | GM | Saptarshi Roy | IND | 2370 |
| 25 | GM | Karthikeyan P. | IND | 2316 |
| 26 | IM | Ratnakaran K. | IND | 2304 |
| 27 | FM | Zia Tahsin Tajwar | BAN | 2255 |
| 28 | WIM | Salonika Saina | IND | 2223 |
| 29 | CM | Pham Tran Gia Phuc | VIE | 2210 |
| 30 | Aswath S | IND | 2186 | |
| 31 | Anadkat Kartavya | IND | 2147 | |
| 32 | WGM | Franco Valencia Beatriz Irene | COL | 2146 |
| 33 | IM | Deshmukh Anup | IND | 2145 |
| 34 | CM | Jaiswal Puneet | IND | 2138 |
| 35 | WIM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | IND | 2135 |
| 36 | AFM | Pawar Harshit | IND | 2110 |
| 37 | WIM | Franco Valencia Angela | COL | 2061 |
| 38 | Kulkarni Vinayak | IND | 2052 | |
| 39 | Sharon Rafael | IND | 2047 | |
| 40 | CM | Kavinda Akila | SRI | 2039 |
| 41 | CM | Jain Naveen | IND | 2032 |
| 42 | Shah Jeet | IND | 2007 | |
| 43 | IM | Ramnathan Balasubramaniam | IND | 2006 |
| 44 | Adireddy Arjun | IND | 1980 | |
| 45 | Hriday Panchal | IND | 1970 | |
| 46 | Mahindrakar Indrajeet | IND | 1957 | |
| 47 | FM | Alahakoon Isuru | SRI | 1925 |
| 48 | WIM | Gokhale Anupama | IND | 1925 |
| 49 | Priyankara Chamil | SRI | 1912 | |
| 50 | Goutham Krishna H | IND | 1896 | |
| 51 | WFM | Patil Mitali | IND | 1877 |
| 52 | Liyanage Pesandu Rashmitha | SRI | 1869 | |
| 53 | Sivathanujan S | SRI | 1850 | |
| 54 | IM | Mamombe Kudzanai | ZIM | 1849 |
| 55 | Sharma Vivek | IND | 1844 | |
| 56 | WIM | Van Zyl Charlize | RSA | 1839 |
| 57 | AGM | Shiva Iyer | IND | 1821 |
| 58 | Majumder Shrayan | IND | 1821 | |
| 59 | Sharnarthi Viresh | IND | 1803 | |
| 60 | Daaevik Wadhawan | IND | 1780 | |
| 61 | WIM | Chandreyee Hajra | IND | 1779 |
| 62 | Iasman Inna | FRA | 1763 | |
| 63 | Ashvath Mittal | IND | 1748 | |
| 64 | WCM | Pham Tran Gia Thu | VIE | 1729 |
| 65 | Rupesh Reddy Y | IND | 1728 | |
| 66 | WIM | Ranasinghe S D | SRI | 1727 |
| 67 | Biswal Sagar | IND | 1694 | |
| 68 | Piyush Kumar | IND | 1687 | |
| 69 | IM | Wazeer Ahmad Khan | IND | 1686 |
| 70 | Abewardhana A A B D P | SRI | 1673 | |
| 71 | Soureen Bhattacharya | IND | 1662 | |
| 72 | Jaiveer Mahendru | IND | 1653 | |
| 73 | Gaikwad Manas | IND | 1652 | |
| 74 | Sachi Jain | IND | 1617 | |
| 75 | Swarna Nihal | IND | 1610 | |
| 76 | Mayukh Majumder | IND | 1602 | |
| 77 | Giridhar A | IND | 1580 | |
| 78 | Gunawardhana Devindya Oshini | SRI | 1575 | |
| 79 | Dawda Vihaan | IND | 1561 | |
| 80 | Jayarathne M N G | SRI | 1553 | |
| 81 | Reyan Md. | IND | 1549 | |
| 82 | Prishita Gupta | IND | 1540 | |
| 83 | Aniket Narayan Biswas | IND | 1538 | |
| 84 | Shreya G Hipparagi | IND | 1526 | |
| 85 | Soumick Bandopadhyay | IND | 1514 | |
| 86 | Shirodkar Aayush | IND | 1501 | |
| 87 | Vandan Alankar Sawai | IND | 1500 | |
| 88 | Prathamesh Santosh Gawade | IND | 1413 | |
| 89 | Vasuki G Krishna | IND | 1404 | |
| 90 | Puspal Datta | IND | 1393 | |
| 91 | Vikramaditya Abhijit Chavan | IND | 1372 | |
| 92 | Aadhya Jain | IND | 1362 | |
| 93 | Dinesh Kumar Gupta | IND | 1353 | |
| 94 | AFM | Aadya Gupta | IND | 1350 |
| 95 | Dissanayake D M Madushan Sameera | SRI | 1278 | |
| 96 | Bakhare Atharva | IND | 1243 | |
| 97 | Fernando Mayon Dinuth Mindula | SRI | 1143 | |
| 98 | Wadduwage Thamindu Upeksha | SRI | 1134 | |
| 99 | Fernando Diyon Senuth Randilu | SRI | 1114 | |
| 100 | Kannangara Ranul Insitha | SRI | 1079 | |
| 101 | Jayakody Chanuth Nadil | SRI | 1004 | |
