Praggnanandhaa and Tania Sachdev are the top seeds at Asian Continental 2022

India hosts an individual Asian championship after almost two decades

The last individual Asian Continental Women's championship took place in Kozhikode 2003. Koneru Humpy won that event. It was the year 2001 when the last Asian Individual Open championship took place in Kolkata. Xu Jun (CHN) became the champion then. Asian Continental championship is one of the few events where India had more women who won this event that men. One of the reasons could be, the Open (then Men's) event started in 1998, while the women's event started in 1981.

Day 0, Draw of Lots and Players' meeting

The top seed in the Open event will get Black pieces in Classical event and White in the Blitz.

Same as the Open event, the top seed in the Women section will get Black pieces in Classical event and White in the Blitz.

Past champions

A total of five former Asian Continental champions including four Indians are taking part in this event.

Stats and facts

• First Asian Continental Open championship to take place in India since 2001 and first Asian Individual Women's championship since 2003 which was won by Koneru Humpy.

• Open event witnessed champions from only four countries - Uzbekistan (1), China (9), India (5) and Vietnam (1).

• Women's event had champions from - India (10 times 8 players), Indonesia (3 times 2 players), China (5), Iran (2). 

• Open - 31 GMs and 39 IMs, a total of 93 players are taking part from 13 countries.

• Women - 7 IMs, 14 WGMs and 17 WIMs are taking part from 10 countries.

• The top seed of the Open section, Praggnanandhaa has played only one Asian Continental championship in 2019. The top seed in the Women's section, IM Tania Sachdev won the Asian Continental Women's title in 2007.

• IM Vaishali R is the sole female player participating in the Open section.

Schedule

Everyday round starts at 2:30 p.m. IST from 26th October to 2nd November 2022. The final round on 3rd November starts at 9 a.m. IST. The Blitz event is slated to start at 3 p.m. IST on 3rd November 2022.

Open teams list

Details

Women

Details

Links

Delhi Chess Association

Tournament Regulations

Stats and facts - Chess-results and Wikipedia

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