The 17th edition of the South Wales International Chess Tournament took place from 7-12 July in Bridgend. The event was played in 9 rounds, Swiss system, with participation of 49 players.
GM Peter Wells convincingly won the event scoring 8/9 points, thus pocketing a Winner-prize of 800£. Wells was a full point ahead of the runner-up GM Keith Arkell who claimed silver with 7/9 points. As many as five players tied for the third place scoring 6 points, each, with tiebreak criteria favoring IM Jose Camacho Collados. (scroll down for final rankings)
Final rankings – 17th South Wales International Chess Tournament 2022:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | GM | Wells Peter K | ENG | 2379 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 47 |
| 2 | GM | Arkell Keith C | ENG | 2400 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 52 |
| 3 | IM | Camacho Collados Jose | WLS | 2410 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 53 |
| 4 | FM | Richardson John R | ENG | 2289 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 51 |
| 5 | IM | Rudd Jack | ENG | 2331 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 50 |
| 6 | Murphy Hugh W | ENG | 2125 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 44 | |
| 7 | GM | Maksimenko Andrei | UKR | 2434 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 50 |
| 8 | CM | Bullen Alex | WLS | 2106 | 5.5 | 0 | 5 | 43 |
| 9 | WFM | Smith Olivia | WLS | 2038 | 5.5 | 0 | 4 | 50 |
| 10 | Hill Alistair | ENG | 2190 | 5.5 | 0 | 4 | 48 | |
| 11 | FM | Nilsson Joakim | SWE | 2213 | 5.5 | 0 | 4 | 46 |
| 12 | Menadue Jeremy F S | ENG | 1989 | 5.5 | 0 | 4 | 46 | |
| 13 | Rathbone-Jones Ifan | WLS | 1936 | 5.5 | 0 | 4 | 44 | |
| 14 | FM | Waddington Mike P | ENG | 2071 | 5.5 | 0 | 4 | 40 |
| 15 | Brown Thomas | WLS | 2194 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 47 | |
| 16 | Ralphs Nigel | WLS | 1964 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 43 | |
| 17 | AGM | Skettos Nicolas | CYP | 1972 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 36 |
| 18 | Fowler Hugo | WLS | 1873 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 46 | |
| 19 | Turner Joseph David | WLS | 1869 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 40 | |
| 20 | Jukes Sam | WLS | 1906 | 4.5 | 0 | 4 | 42 | |
| 21 | AGM | Van Kemenade Rudy | WLS | 1921 | 4.5 | 0 | 4 | 39 |
| 22 | Thomas Roy | WLS | 1673 | 4.5 | 0 | 4 | 32 | |
| 23 | FM | Blackburn Jonathan L B | WLS | 2176 | 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 49 |
| 24 | Spanton Tim R | ENG | 1889 | 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 43 | |
| 25 | Gibbs Dominic V | ENG | 1873 | 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 41 | |
| 26 | Robinson David | WLS | 1857 | 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 38 | |
| 27 | De Coverly Roger D | ENG | 1914 | 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 40 | |
| 28 | Fathallah Joe | WLS | 1912 | 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 39 | |
| 29 | ACM | Mckenna Joshua | WLS | 1658 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 36 |
| 30 | Fowler Caspian | WLS | 1483 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 32 | |
| 31 | FM | Derakhshani Borna | ENG | 2387 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 51 |
| 32 | CM | Hughes Anthony | WLS | 1865 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 40 |
| 33 | Gawne Martin | ENG | 1724 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 39 | |
| 34 | Davies Callum | WLS | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 37 | |
| 35 | Khan Mohammed | ENG | 1778 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 28 | |
| 36 | Probert Malcolm | WLS | 1572 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 35 | |
| 37 | Hurn Robert Aj | WLS | 1605 | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | 42 | |
| 38 | Williams Ron | WLS | 1589 | 3.5 | 0 | 2 | 30 | |
| 39 | Dixon Chris | WLS | 1696 | 3.5 | 0 | 1 | 33 | |
| 40 | Jones Jeremy | WLS | 1574 | 3.5 | 0 | 1 | 32 | |
| 41 | Sainbayar Anuurai | ENG | 1512 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 40 | |
| 42 | Farley Harry | ENG | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 34 | |
| 43 | Bridges Paul | WLS | 1754 | 2.5 | 0 | 2 | 38 | |
| 44 | Westcott Dale | WLS | 1250 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 37 | |
| 45 | Jones Luke | ENG | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | |
| 46 | Harding Gareth | WLS | 1808 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 40 | |
| 47 | Di-Vetta Andrew | WLS | 1754 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 32 | |
| 48 | Emblem Mark | WLS | 1437 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | |
| 49 | FM | Kozusek Daniel | WLS | 2328 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| FM | Liu Yi | AUS | 2297 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | |
| Volovich Julia | ENG | 1783 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | ||
| Allen Edwin | ENG | 1442 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
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