The 2022 Lorca Open will be held from 26-30 December 2022 in Hotel Spa Amaltea Lorca, Spain. The event features two tournaments: Open A and Open B (for players rated U2150) with a prize fund of 8.000 EUR. The Open A will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds of increment, and the Tournament B will be played in 7 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 60 minutes + 30 seconds of increment.
Already more than 140 players registered for the main Open A event, with GM Vassily Ivanchuk headlining the field. The current starting list of players:
| No. | Nombre | Elo | |
| 1 | GM | Ivanchuk Vasyl | 2673 |
| 2 | GM | Fier Alexandr | 2600 |
| 3 | GM | Basso Pier Luigi | 2516 |
| 4 | GM | Libiszewski Fabien | 2509 |
| 5 | GM | Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel | 2489 |
| 6 | GM | Cabrera Alexis | 2471 |
| 7 | GM | Delorme Axel | 2470 |
| 8 | IM | Fernandez Guillen Ernesto J. | 2462 |
| 9 | IM | Buckels Valentin | 2455 |
| 10 | GM | Alvarez Pedraza Aramis | 2451 |
| 11 | IM | Abdisalimov Abdimalik | 2447 |
| 12 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | 2439 |
| 13 | FM | Makkar Rajat | 2432 |
| 14 | IM | Ajay Karthikeyan | 2430 |
| 15 | IM | Sabuk Piotr | 2430 |
| 16 | IM | Szpar Milosz | 2428 |
| 17 | FM | Saydaliev Saidakbar | 2419 |
| 18 | IM | Ceres Dragos | 2412 |
| 19 | IM | Materia Marco | 2405 |
| 20 | IM | Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali | 2397 |
| 21 | IM | Sattarov Bobir | 2389 |
| 22 | IM | Luch Michal | 2371 |
| 23 | Sanket Chakravarty | 2367 | |
| 24 | GM | Plaskett H James | 2365 |
| 25 | IM | Valmana Canto Jaime | 2358 |
| 26 | GM | Giaccio Alfredo | 2357 |
| 27 | FM | Aarav Dengla | 2357 |
| 28 | IM | Leon Valdes Jony Wilson | 2356 |
| 29 | FM | Nawin J J | 2351 |
| 30 | IM | Goluch Piotr | 2345 |
| 31 | FM | Cesar Maestre Bernardo | 2344 |
| 32 | FM | Namitbir Singh Walia | 2341 |
| 33 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | 2337 |
| 34 | FM | Manu David Suthandram R | 2332 |
| 35 | FM | Mingarro Carceller Sergi | 2330 |
| 36 | IM | Danielyan Vahe | 2307 |
| 37 | CM | Shaik Sumer Arsh | 2290 |
| 38 | GM | Pogorelov Ruslan | 2288 |
| 39 | Joshua A P | 2288 | |
| 40 | FM | Shivakumar Shawnak | 2281 |
| 41 | CM | Md Imran | 2279 |
| 42 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | 2272 |
| 43 | CM | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | 2247 |
| 44 | Arjun C Krishnamachari | 2241 | |
| 45 | FM | Perez Guerra Raul | 2239 |
| 46 | CM | Rajarishi Karthi | 2239 |
| 47 | CM | Ilinca Ilinca Felix Antonio | 2233 |
| 48 | IM | Sai Agni Jeevitesh J | 2226 |
| 49 | CM | Dahale Atul | 2222 |
| 50 | FM | Renteria Jorge | 2217 |
| 51 | FM | Bernado Lopez Roger | 2197 |
| 52 | Ojas Kulkarni | 2196 | |
| 53 | CM | Nayak Rajesh | 2184 |
| 54 | Bernabe Duran Francisco | 2180 | |
| 55 | Cayon Pelaez Pablo | 2161 | |
| 56 | Akshit Kumar J | 2158 | |
| 57 | Motos Abellan Daniel | 2158 | |
| 58 | FM | Jeet Jain | 2141 |
| 59 | Revaliente Montoya Ciro | 2129 | |
| 60 | Hompanera Lopez Enrique | 2127 | |
| 61 | Gugan G | 2126 | |
| 62 | Martinez Soriano Javier | 2118 | |
| 63 | Aymerich Rosell Pablo | 2114 | |
| 64 | FM | Sanchez Manzanares Jorge Luis | 2095 |
| 65 | WFM | Nikanova Ekaterina | 2091 |
| 66 | Bub Volker | 2091 | |
| 67 | Yuste Valenzuela Alejandro | 2089 | |
| 68 | WFM | Guadamuro Torrente Anabel | 2086 |
| 69 | FM | Paulino Domingos | 2085 |
| 70 | Cano Mateos Pablo | 2065 | |
| 71 | Perez Travieso Saul | 2065 | |
| 72 | Cebrian Flores Juan Antonio | 2045 | |
| 73 | Niharika Challa | 2044 | |
| 74 | Sarveshwaran V | 2040 | |
| 75 | WFM | Rodriguez Guerra Melissa | 2034 |
| 76 | AGM | Vignesh B | 2032 |
| 77 | Guerrero Mendez Luis | 2032 | |
| 78 | Porlan Minarro Antonio | 2026 | |
| 79 | Muelas Cerezuela Jose | 2014 | |
| 80 | Mulay Pratik | 1998 | |
| 81 | Nasta Kiren Vivek | 1990 | |
| 82 | Salvador Buiza Victor | 1984 | |
| 83 | CM | Daakshin Arun | 1982 |
| 84 | WFM | Diaz Del Valle Laura Beatriz | 1982 |
| 85 | WCM | Ankitha Goud Palle | 1980 |
| 86 | Vinuesa Sorli Ruben | 1970 | |
| 87 | Hiren K G | 1965 | |
| 88 | Adjerit Nourreddine | 1961 | |
| 89 | Diaz Rodriguez Jose Antonio | 1961 | |
| 90 | Mompel Ferruz Xavier | 1953 | |
| 91 | FM | Huguet Sergio | 1939 |
| 92 | Martinez Soriano Pablo | 1908 | |
| 93 | Martinez Sanchez Antonio Manuel | 1906 | |
| 94 | WCM | Bibilashvili Lali | 1900 |
| 95 | Adamski Adam | 1894 | |
| 96 | Camarillas Castellano Pau | 1874 | |
| 97 | Gonzalez Lopez Lucas I | 1869 | |
| 98 | Juan Mas Santiago | 1858 | |
| 99 | Juan Lepp Jaime Boris | 1855 | |
| 100 | Galindo Montoya Diego | 1843 | |
| 101 | Alalwan Sajjad Abbas Khudhair | 1841 | |
| 102 | Basiaga Sebastian | 1837 | |
| 103 | Arvind Ramnath Iyer | 1834 | |
| 104 | Ramadugu Akshay | 1812 | |
| 105 | Kushal O | 1801 | |
| 106 | Pirvulescu Adrian | 1793 | |
| 107 | Pastor Villalba Arturo | 1789 | |
| 108 | Saravanan Durga | 1784 | |
| 109 | Do Rosario Jose | 1765 | |
| 110 | Shaffer Alexander | 1750 | |
| 111 | Prudhvi Kumar V | 1733 | |
| 112 | Materia Matteo | 1729 | |
| 113 | Aadith R | 1714 | |
| 114 | Fernandez Calzada Juan A. | 1708 | |
| 115 | Gani Mohand Cherif | 1706 | |
| 116 | Vigneshwaran N. | 1687 | |
| 117 | Erades Berenguer Ana | 1677 | |
| 118 | Keerti Shree Reddy | 1673 | |
| 119 | Perez Pinazo Jose Oscar | 1646 | |
| 120 | Pintor Avila Antonio | 1628 | |
| 121 | Sudharsan Gurukrishnan | 1586 | |
| 122 | Muhammad Essa | 1527 | |
| 123 | Ilinca Ilinca Filip Antonio | 1506 | |
| 124 | Leelajai Krishna N | 1491 | |
| 125 | Swapna C N | 1481 | |
| 126 | Gyaneshwar B | 1466 | |
| 127 | Simhadri Sai Hrushikesh | 1460 | |
| 128 | Boluda Costa Julen | 1459 | |
| 129 | AFM | Suriya S V | 1455 |
| 130 | Gonzalez Lopez Francisco Jesus | 1424 | |
| 131 | Guzman Fuentes Encarna | 1275 | |
| 132 | Maouche Nore Ddine | 1222 | |
| 133 | Zakharash Georgii | 1148 | |
| 134 | ACM | Ojassvini Thiagarajan | 0 |
| 135 | Acherchour Amine | 0 | |
| 136 | Acherchour Faouzi | 0 | |
| 137 | Ferraz Domingos Luis | 0 | |
| 138 | Hamani Mohamed Amine | 0 | |
| 139 | Laurinda Jose Congo Francisco | 0 | |
| 140 | Meksaoui Taous | 0 | |
| 141 | Telmat Abderazak | 0 |
