The Asian Continental Chess Championship 2022 got off to a rousing start at Leela Ambience Convention Hotel on Wednesday. 140 players from 13 Asian countries which include 31 Grandmasters, 46 International Masters, 14 Women Grandmasters and 17 Women International Masters (see all participants Open section / all participants Women section) are participating in this nine day long prestigious championship to decide the Asian champion. Apart from Asian supremacy, the event serves as qualification for the next year’s World Cup as the top four players in the Open and two players in the women’s category will secure their berth in the World cup.
On the opening day, top seeds and favourites Praggnandhaa and Tania Sachdev started their championship campaign with draws while ninth seed Abhijeet Gupta and women’s second seed Nomin Erdene Davaademberel of Mongolia suffered shock defeats to be the biggest casualties. Turkmenistan’s Saparmyrat Atabayev forced Pragganandhaa to sign the peace treaty after 47 moves while Tania settled for half point against Sakshi Chitlange after 26 moves that ended with three-fold repetition of moves. Gupta suffered a shock defeat by the hand of Amartuvshin Ganzorig of Mongolia and Liya Kurmangaliyeva got the better of Davaademberel.
In other upsets of the day, untitled Sanket Chakravarthy outwitted Grandmaster Arjun Kalyan while Sharan Rao outwitted Grandmaster Deep Sengupta. S Nitin and Moksh Amit Doshi held Kazakh Grandmaster Rinat Jumabayev and fifth seed Aryan Chopra respectively in the first round.
Asian Continental Chess 2022 Open section round 1
| 1 | IM | Atabayev Saparmyrat | TKM | 2433 | ½ – ½ | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2687 |
| 2 | GM | Narayanan.S.L | IND | 2663 | 1 – 0 | IM | Harshavardhan G B | IND | 2433 |
| 3 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | UZB | 2433 | ½ – ½ | GM | Yakubboev Nodirbek | UZB | 2663 |
| 4 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2645 | 1 – 0 | Sattarov Bobir | UZB | 2433 | |
| 5 | IM | Moksh Amit Doshi | IND | 2430 | ½ – ½ | GM | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2629 |
| 6 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2625 | 1 – 0 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2408 |
| 7 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | IND | 2407 | 0 – 1 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2623 |
| 8 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2620 | ½ – ½ | IM | Nitin S. | IND | 2407 |
| 9 | IM | Amartuvshin Ganzorig | MGL | 2406 | 1 – 0 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2607 |
| 10 | GM | Adhiban B. | IND | 2603 | 1 – 0 | GM | Neelotpal Das | IND | 2400 |
| 11 | IM | Shahil Dey | IND | 2395 | ½ – ½ | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | IND | 2603 |
| 12 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2582 | ½ – ½ | GM | Hossain Enamul | BAN | 2390 |
| 13 | IM | Tologon Tegin Semetei | KGZ | 2382 | 0 – 1 | GM | Vokhidov Shamsiddin | UZB | 2568 |
| 14 | GM | Visakh N R | IND | 2566 | 0 – 1 | FM | Nurmamedov Azat | TKM | 2382 |
| 15 | FM | Singh Ojasva | IND | 2382 | 0 – 1 | GM | Mendonca Leon Luke | IND | 2558 |
| 16 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2541 | ½ – ½ | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2378 |
| 17 | FM | Saydaliev Saidakbar | UZB | 2376 | 1 – 0 | IM | Pranav V | IND | 2530 |
| 18 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2526 | 0 – 1 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2372 | |
| 19 | IM | Dushyant Sharma | IND | 2370 | 0 – 1 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | IND | 2518 |
| 20 | IM | De Silva L M S T | SRI | 2516 | ½ – ½ | FM | Panda Sambit | IND | 2362 |
| 21 | IM | Krishna Teja N | IND | 2359 | 1 – 0 | GM | Sankalp Gupta | IND | 2502 |
| 22 | IM | Pranav Anand | IND | 2502 | 1 – 0 | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2351 |
| 23 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2350 | 1 – 0 | GM | Sengupta Deep | IND | 2497 |
| 24 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2496 | + – – | Utsab Chatterjee | IND | 2345 | |
| 25 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | IND | 2343 | ½ – ½ | IM | Suleymenov Alisher | KAZ | 2491 |
| 26 | IM | Atabayev Yusup | TKM | 2490 | 0 – 1 | IM | Viani Antonio Dcunha | IND | 2342 |
| 27 | IM | Avinash Ramesh | IND | 2338 | ½ – ½ | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2489 |
| 28 | GM | Batchuluun Tsegmed | MGL | 2487 | 1 – 0 | FM | Ritviz Parab | IND | 2337 |
| 29 | IM | Raahul V S | IND | 2333 | ½ – ½ | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2486 |
| 30 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2486 | 1 – 0 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2332 |
| 31 | IM | Ratnakaran K. | IND | 2329 | ½ – ½ | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2486 |
| 32 | GM | Atabayev Maksat | TKM | 2475 | 1 – 0 | FM | Aaryan Varshney | IND | 2312 |
| 33 | FM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | SRI | 2310 | 0 – 1 | GM | Chanda Sandipan | IND | 2474 |
| 34 | GM | Mitrabha Guha | IND | 2474 | 1 – 0 | IM | Chakravarthi Reddy M | IND | 2301 |
| 35 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2300 | 0 – 1 | GM | Raja Rithvik R | IND | 2470 |
| 36 | GM | Venkatesh M.R. | IND | 2470 | 1 – 0 | FM | Kakabayev Mergen | TKM | 2285 |
| 37 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2284 | 0 – 1 | GM | Bilguun Sumiya | MGL | 2467 |
| 38 | IM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2467 | ½ – ½ | FM | Ayush Sharma | IND | 2267 |
| 39 | IM | Sharma Dinesh K. | IND | 2242 | 0 – 1 | IM | Urazayev Arystanbek | KAZ | 2458 |
| 40 | IM | Abdisalimov Abdimalik | UZB | 2457 | 0 – 1 | CM | Muradov Soltan | TKM | 2233 |
| 41 | FM | Winkelman Albert | AUS | 2229 | 1 – 0 | IM | Prraneeth Vuppala | IND | 2451 |
| 42 | IM | Vaishali R | IND | 2451 | 0 – 1 | IM | Saravana Krishnan P. | IND | 2197 |
| 43 | Schain Randolph | CAM | 2165 | 0 – 1 | IM | Pranesh M | IND | 2442 | |
| 44 | IM | Ajay Karthikeyan | IND | 2441 | ½ – ½ | FM | Jaiswal Rupesh | NEP | 2135 |
| 45 | Dang Vu Dung | VIE | 2017 | 0 – 1 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2436 | |
| 46 | IM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 2435 | 1 – 0 | FM | Muhammed Shuaau | MDV | 2010 |
Asian Continental Chess 2022 Women section round 1
| 1 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | IND | 2208 | ½ – ½ | IM | Tania Sachdev | IND | 2406 |
| 2 | IM | Nomin-Erdene Davaademberel | MGL | 2404 | 0 – 1 | FM | Kurmangaliyeva Liya | KAZ | 2199 |
| 3 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | IND | 2187 | ½ – ½ | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2390 |
| 4 | IM | Kulkarni Bhakti | IND | 2376 | 1 – 0 | IM | Mohota Nisha | IND | 2181 |
| 5 | WIM | Mrudul Dehankar | IND | 2168 | ½ – ½ | WGM | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2362 |
| 6 | WGM | Yakubbaeva Nilufar | UZB | 2350 | ½ – ½ | WIM | Aakanksha Hagawane | IND | 2162 |
| 7 | WIM | Bommini Mounika Akshaya | IND | 2160 | 0 – 1 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2338 |
| 8 | IM | Karavade Eesha | IND | 2336 | ½ – ½ | WFM | Harshini A | IND | 2149 |
| 9 | WGM | Varshini V | IND | 2137 | ½ – ½ | WGM | Vo Thi Kim Phung | VIE | 2335 |
| 10 | IM | Soumya Swaminathan | IND | 2326 | 1 – 0 | WIM | Parnali S Dharia | IND | 2136 |
| 11 | WIM | Tejaswini Sagar | IND | 2112 | 0 – 1 | WGM | Priyanka Nutakki | IND | 2326 |
| 12 | WGM | Gomes Mary Ann | IND | 2324 | 1 – 0 | WIM | Priyanka K | IND | 2096 |
| 13 | WIM | Makhija Aashna | IND | 2090 | ½ – ½ | WGM | Nandhidhaa P V | IND | 2309 |
| 14 | WGM | Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii | MGL | 2295 | 0 – 1 | WGM | Swati Ghate | IND | 2086 |
| 15 | WFM | Ovezdurdyyeva Jemal | TKM | 2061 | ½ – ½ | WGM | Dauletova Gulmira | KAZ | 2260 |
| 16 | WIM | Cholleti Sahajasri | IND | 2246 | 0 – 1 | WGM | Kiran Manisha Mohanty | IND | 2030 |
| 17 | Veliyeva Hurma | TKM | 2003 | ½ – ½ | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | IND | 2238 | |
| 18 | WIM | Sharma Isha | IND | 2234 | ½ – ½ | WFM | Lakshmi C | IND | 1965 |
| 19 | Ishvi Aggarwal | IND | 1964 | 0 – 1 | WIM | Kairbekova Amina | KAZ | 2231 | |
| 20 | WIM | Balabayeva Xeniya | KAZ | 2230 | 1 – 0 | WFM | Zairbek Kyzy Begimai | KGZ | 1930 |
| 21 | WIM | Nguyen Thanh Thuy Tien | VIE | 1910 | 0 – 1 | WIM | Rakshitta Ravi | IND | 2219 |
| 22 | WFM | Munkhzul Davaakhuu | MGL | 2218 | 0 – 1 | WCM | Jannatul Ferdous | BAN | 1861 |
| 23 | WFM | Shohradova Lala | TKM | 1856 | 0 – 1 | WGM | Nguyen Thi Mai Hung | VIE | 2217 |
| 24 | WFM | Pandey Srishti | IND | 2213 | + – – | WFM | Lohani Sujana | NEP | 1716 |
| 25 | WIM | Ranasinghe S D | SRI | 1675 | 0 – 1 | WIM | Salonika Saina | IND | 2209 |
