India dominated the 2022 Asian Chess Championship, which came to an end in New Delhi on November 3. Indian players swept the podium in both open and women’s sections, with Rameshbabu Praggnanadhaa and Pallathur Venkatachalam Nandhidhaa winning the titles. Both events were 9-round Swiss tournaments with classical time control.
Praggnanandhaa scored unbeaten 7/9 points to be the sole winner of the open event, while six players tied for the second place. Tiebreaks criteria determined GM Bharathakoti Harsha silver and GM Adhiban bronze. Nandhidhaa P V scored 7.5 points to clinch the Women’s event and be a full point ahead of the runner-ups. WGM Nutakki Priyanka, WGM Deshmukh Divya and WGM Vo Thi Kim Phung tied for second place with 6.5 points, each, with tiebreaks criteria favoring WGM Nutakki Priyanka who came second, and WGM Deshmuk Divya who claimed bronze.
The event served as qualification for the next year’s FIDE World Cup with the top four players in the Open and two players in the Women’s category securing their spots in the World cup. Scroll down for final rankings of both events

Final rankings – Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022:
Rk. | Name | sex | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
1 | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2687 | 7 | 2530 | 46 | 50 | |
2 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2582 | 6.5 | 2521 | 45 | 49 | |
3 | GM | Adhiban B. | IND | 2603 | 6.5 | 2511 | 43 | 47 | |
4 | GM | Narayanan.S.L | IND | 2663 | 6.5 | 2507 | 45 | 49 | |
5 | GM | Vokhidov Shamsiddin | UZB | 2568 | 6.5 | 2507 | 44 | 47 | |
6 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2645 | 6.5 | 2487 | 44 | 48 | |
7 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2486 | 6.5 | 2430 | 41 | 44 | |
8 | IM | Pranesh M | IND | 2442 | 6 | 2527 | 43 | 44 | |
9 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2342 | 6 | 2513 | 44 | 48 | |
10 | IM | Pranav Anand | IND | 2502 | 6 | 2477 | 41 | 45 | |
11 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | IND | 2518 | 6 | 2468 | 42 | 46 | |
12 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | IND | 2603 | 6 | 2454 | 40 | 44 | |
13 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2625 | 6 | 2446 | 42 | 46 | |
14 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2486 | 6 | 2387 | 37 | 40 | |
15 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2496 | 5.5 | 2561 | 47 | 50 | |
16 | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2267 | 5.5 | 2528 | 41 | 45 | |
17 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2623 | 5.5 | 2524 | 44 | 48 | |
18 | GM | Raja Rithvik R | IND | 2470 | 5.5 | 2522 | 44 | 47 | |
19 | IM | Urazayev Arystanbek | KAZ | 2458 | 5.5 | 2469 | 44 | 46 | |
20 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2620 | 5.5 | 2442 | 40 | 44 | |
21 | IM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2467 | 5.5 | 2435 | 41 | 44 | |
22 | IM | Pranav V | IND | 2530 | 5.5 | 2430 | 38 | 40 | |
23 | GM | Sankalp Gupta | IND | 2502 | 5.5 | 2402 | 38 | 41 | |
24 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2497 | 5.5 | 2400 | 35 | 38 | |
25 | GM | Yakubboev Nodirbek | UZB | 2663 | 5.5 | 2390 | 36 | 39 | |
26 | IM | Atabayev Saparmyrat | TKM | 2433 | 5 | 2610 | 49 | 54 | |
27 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | IND | 2558 | 5 | 2544 | 46 | 49 | |
28 | GM | Atabayev Maksat | TKM | 2475 | 5 | 2540 | 45 | 48 | |
29 | GM | Bilguun Sumiya | MGL | 2467 | 5 | 2513 | 42 | 45 | |
30 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2408 | 5 | 2501 | 44 | 45 | |
31 | IM | Tologon Tegin Semetei | KGZ | 2382 | 5 | 2478 | 35 | 38 | |
32 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2333 | 5 | 2463 | 40 | 44 | |
33 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | IND | 2474 | 5 | 2457 | 43 | 47 | |
34 | GM | Mitrabha Guha | IND | 2474 | 5 | 2403 | 36 | 39 | |
35 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2489 | 5 | 2398 | 37 | 40 | |
36 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2541 | 5 | 2380 | 34 | 36 | |
37 | FM | Saydaliev Saidakbar | UZB | 2376 | 4.5 | 2514 | 42 | 46 | |
38 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | UZB | 2433 | 4.5 | 2510 | 43 | 46 | |
39 | FM | Nurmamedov Azat | TKM | 2382 | 4.5 | 2489 | 39 | 42 | |
40 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | IND | 2312 | 4.5 | 2462 | 37 | 42 | |
41 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2300 | 4.5 | 2458 | 37 | 40 | |
42 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2486 | 4.5 | 2456 | 43 | 47 | |
43 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | IND | 2407 | 4.5 | 2456 | 42 | 46 | |
44 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2350 | 4.5 | 2453 | 35 | 38 | |
45 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2284 | 4.5 | 2447 | 38 | 42 | |
46 | IM | Harshavardhan G B | IND | 2433 | 4.5 | 2433 | 38 | 41 | |
47 | IM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 2435 | 4.5 | 2428 | 41 | 43 | |
48 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2436 | 4.5 | 2417 | 36 | 38 | |
49 | IM | Abdisalimov Abdimalik | UZB | 2457 | 4.5 | 2395 | 33 | 36 | |
50 | GM | Batchuluun Tsegmed | MGL | 2487 | 4.5 | 2376 | 33 | 36 | |
51 | IM | Suleymenov Alisher | KAZ | 2491 | 4.5 | 2375 | 32 | 35 | |
52 | IM | Ajay Karthikeyan | IND | 2441 | 4.5 | 2367 | 37 | 40 | |
53 | IM | Nitin S. | IND | 2407 | 4.5 | 2354 | 34 | 36 | |
54 | IM | Atabayev Yusup | TKM | 2490 | 4.5 | 2338 | 39 | 42 | |
55 | FM | Panda Sambit | IND | 2362 | 4 | 2511 | 43 | 45 | |
56 | IM | Amartuvshin Ganzorig | MGL | 2406 | 4 | 2489 | 40 | 43 | |
57 | FM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2310 | 4 | 2481 | 34 | 37 | |
58 | IM | Avinash Ramesh | IND | 2338 | 4 | 2471 | 37 | 40 | |
59 | IM | Saravana Krishnan P. | IND | 2197 | 4 | 2469 | 39 | 42 | |
60 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2332 | 4 | 2467 | 35 | 35 | |
61 | IM | Moksh Amit Doshi | IND | 2430 | 4 | 2454 | 36 | 39 | |
62 | GM | Neelotpal Das | IND | 2400 | 4 | 2444 | 38 | 40 | |
63 | FM | Kakabayev Mergen | TKM | 2285 | 4 | 2438 | 30 | 33 | |
64 | GM | Hossain Enamul | BAN | 2390 | 4 | 2422 | 35 | 37 | |
65 | IM | Dushyant Sharma | IND | 2370 | 4 | 2405 | 33 | 33 | |
66 | IM | De Silva L M S T | SRI | 2516 | 4 | 2358 | 32 | 35 | |
67 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2378 | 3.5 | 2523 | 39 | 42 | |
68 | FM | Ritviz Parab | IND | 2337 | 3.5 | 2494 | 38 | 41 | |
69 | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2351 | 3.5 | 2492 | 36 | 39 | |
70 | FM | Winkelman Albert | AUS | 2229 | 3.5 | 2467 | 38 | 42 | |
71 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | IND | 2343 | 3.5 | 2418 | 33 | 35 | |
72 | IM | Shahil Dey | IND | 2395 | 3.5 | 2400 | 35 | 37 | |
73 | Sattarov Bobir | UZB | 2433 | 3.5 | 2360 | 36 | 39 | ||
74 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2372 | 3 | 2503 | 39 | 43 | ||
75 | FM | Singh Ojasva | IND | 2382 | 3 | 2419 | 34 | 36 | |
76 | FM | Jaiswal Rupesh | NEP | 2135 | 3 | 2407 | 35 | 37 | |
77 | IM | Krishna Teja N | IND | 2359 | 3 | 2402 | 35 | 36 | |
78 | GM | Visakh N R | IND | 2566 | 3 | 2402 | 33 | 37 | |
79 | CM | Muradov Soltan | TKM | 2233 | 3 | 2389 | 32 | 34 | |
80 | IM | Sharma Dinesh K. | IND | 2242 | 3 | 2387 | 31 | 33 | |
81 | IM | Ratnakaran K. | IND | 2329 | 3 | 2382 | 35 | 35 | |
82 | FM | Muhammed Shuaau | MDV | 2010 | 2.5 | 2408 | 33 | 36 | |
83 | Dang Vu Dung | VIE | 2017 | 2.5 | 2289 | 27 | 28 | ||
84 | GM | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2629 | 2 | 2433 | 35 | 38 | |
85 | GM | Venkatesh M.R. | IND | 2470 | 2 | 2424 | 32 | 35 | |
86 | IM | Chakravarthi Reddy M | IND | 2301 | 2 | 2405 | 29 | 30 | |
87 | IM | Vaishali R | w | IND | 2451 | 2 | 2319 | 29 | 32 |
88 | IM | Prraneeth Vuppala | IND | 2451 | 2 | 2285 | 29 | 31 | |
89 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2526 | 1 | 2337 | 28 | 30 | |
90 | Schain Randolph | CAM | 2165 | 1 | 2320 | 30 | 31 | ||
91 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2607 | 0 | 2394 | 26 | 27 | |
92 | Utsab Chatterjee | IND | 2345 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 27 |
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Final rankings – Asian Women’s Continental Chess Championship 2022:
Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
1 | WGM | Nandhidhaa P V | IND | 2309 | 7.5 | 2282 | 44 | 47 |
2 | WGM | Priyanka Nutakki | IND | 2326 | 6.5 | 2306 | 44 | 46 |
3 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2338 | 6.5 | 2259 | 44 | 48 |
4 | WGM | Vo Thi Kim Phung | VIE | 2335 | 6.5 | 2250 | 42 | 45 |
5 | FM | Kurmangaliyeva Liya | KAZ | 2199 | 6 | 2327 | 43 | 48 |
6 | WGM | Nguyen Thi Mai Hung | VIE | 2217 | 6 | 2273 | 42 | 46 |
7 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2390 | 6 | 2267 | 45 | 48 |
8 | WIM | Aakanksha Hagawane | IND | 2162 | 5.5 | 2295 | 39 | 42 |
9 | IM | Mohota Nisha | IND | 2181 | 5.5 | 2273 | 36 | 39 |
10 | WGM | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2362 | 5.5 | 2257 | 41 | 44 |
11 | WGM | Gomes Mary Ann | IND | 2324 | 5.5 | 2230 | 42 | 44 |
12 | WIM | Kairbekova Amina | KAZ | 2231 | 5.5 | 2180 | 34 | 37 |
13 | IM | Karavade Eesha | IND | 2336 | 5.5 | 2177 | 36 | 39 |
14 | IM | Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel | MGL | 2404 | 5.5 | 2134 | 35 | 38 |
15 | WGM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | IND | 2030 | 5 | 2300 | 42 | 46 |
16 | WIM | Rakshitta Ravi | IND | 2219 | 5 | 2280 | 40 | 43 |
17 | IM | Soumya Swaminathan | IND | 2326 | 5 | 2264 | 49 | 54 |
18 | IM | Tania Sachdev | IND | 2406 | 5 | 2236 | 44 | 48 |
19 | WIM | Balabayeva Xeniya | KAZ | 2230 | 5 | 2209 | 39 | 40 |
20 | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | IND | 2238 | 5 | 2092 | 29 | 32 |
21 | WIM | Salonika Saina | IND | 2209 | 4.5 | 2315 | 38 | 41 |
22 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | IND | 2187 | 4.5 | 2292 | 41 | 44 |
23 | WIM | Makhija Aashna | IND | 2090 | 4.5 | 2240 | 44 | 47 |
24 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | IND | 2208 | 4.5 | 2228 | 40 | 43 |
25 | WIM | Cholleti Sahajasri | IND | 2246 | 4.5 | 2209 | 41 | 44 |
26 | WIM | Parnali S Dharia | IND | 2136 | 4.5 | 2197 | 36 | 39 |
27 | WFM | Pandey Srishti | IND | 2213 | 4.5 | 2188 | 42 | 45 |
28 | WIM | Sharma Isha | IND | 2234 | 4.5 | 2159 | 37 | 40 |
29 | WFM | Shohradova Lala | TKM | 1856 | 4.5 | 2139 | 34 | 36 |
30 | WFM | Munkhzul Davaakhuu | MGL | 2218 | 4.5 | 2113 | 36 | 38 |
31 | WIM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | IND | 2160 | 4.5 | 2077 | 31 | 33 |
32 | WGM | Yakubbaeva Nilufar | UZB | 2350 | 4 | 2256 | 44 | 46 |
33 | WGM | Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii | MGL | 2295 | 4 | 2197 | 35 | 37 |
34 | Veliyeva Hurma | TKM | 2003 | 4 | 2195 | 35 | 37 | |
35 | WGM | Dauletova Gulmira | KAZ | 2260 | 4 | 2063 | 33 | 35 |
36 | WGM | Varshini V | IND | 2137 | 3.5 | 2271 | 41 | 44 |
37 | WFM | Ovezdurdyyeva Jemal | TKM | 2061 | 3.5 | 2231 | 37 | 39 |
38 | WGM | Swati Ghate | IND | 2086 | 3.5 | 2226 | 38 | 40 |
39 | WFM | Lakshmi C | IND | 1965 | 3.5 | 2212 | 34 | 37 |
40 | WIM | Nguyen Thanh Thuy Tien | VIE | 1910 | 3.5 | 2192 | 35 | 38 |
41 | Ishvi Aggarwal | IND | 1964 | 3.5 | 2178 | 35 | 36 | |
42 | WIM | Priyanka K | IND | 2096 | 3.5 | 2131 | 33 | 36 |
43 | WFM | Harshini A | IND | 2149 | 3.5 | 2128 | 36 | 39 |
44 | WIM | Mrudul Dehankar | IND | 2168 | 3 | 2241 | 41 | 42 |
45 | WIM | Ranasinghe S D | SRI | 1675 | 3 | 2175 | 31 | 32 |
46 | IM | Kulkarni Bhakti | IND | 2376 | 3 | 2164 | 34 | 37 |
47 | WIM | Tejaswini Sagar | IND | 2112 | 3 | 2044 | 29 | 31 |
48 | WCM | Jannatul Ferdous | BAN | 1861 | 2 | 2174 | 33 | 35 |
49 | WFM | Zairbek Kyzy Begimai | KGZ | 1930 | 2 | 2031 | 29 | 31 |
50 | WFM | Lohani Sujana | NEP | 1716 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 27 |
