The UK Open and Women’s Blitz Chess Championships 2022 were held on 3rd December in Royal Leamington Spa. The Open tournament was a 16-player round-robin event and the women’s championship was played in the same system, with 15 participants.
GM Jon Speelman and GM Eldar Gasanov tied for the top of the Open tournament scoring 12.5 points, each. The tie-break criteria favored Speelman who claimed two titles – UK Open Blitz Champion 2022 & English Blitz Champion 2022. Gasanov came second, and GM Mark Hebden won bronze with 11 points. Scroll down for final rankings
WGM Elmira Mirzoeva won the Women’s event with 12 points. However, 7-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan stole the show of the whole competition as she scored 11 points to claim silver medal and become joint UK Joint English Women’s Blitz Champion 2022 with Kamila Hryshchenko who had the same number of points but lower tiebreaks. With the impressive performance, Bodhana earned 328.4 blitz rating points! Scroll down for final rankings
Final rankings – UK Open Blitz Chess Championship 2022
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | TB4 | |
| 1 | GM | Speelman Jon S | ENG | 2532 | 12.5 | 0.5 | 87.3 | 5.5 | 2494 |
| 2 | GM | Gasanov Eldar | UKR | 2447 | 12.5 | 0.5 | 84.3 | 4.5 | 2500 |
| 3 | GM | Hebden Mark L | ENG | 2436 | 11 | 0 | 64.5 | 3 | 2403 |
| 4 | Gordon Frederick | SCO | 2067 | 10.5 | 0 | 73.3 | 4.5 | 2401 | |
| 5 | IM | Willow Jonah B | ENG | 2300 | 9.5 | 1 | 62.3 | 4 | 2332 |
| 6 | GM | Gormally Daniel W | ENG | 2553 | 9.5 | 0 | 52.8 | 1.5 | 2315 |
| 7 | FM | Han Yichen | NED | 2323 | 8.5 | 0 | 54.3 | 2 | 2285 |
| 8 | IM | Camacho Collados Jose | WLS | 2280 | 8 | 0 | 51 | 3 | 2259 |
| 9 | Boswell Jacob Connor | ENG | 2017 | 7 | 0 | 35.5 | 1 | 2235 | |
| 10 | Onslow Alfie | ENG | 2015 | 6.5 | 0 | 36.8 | 2 | 2206 | |
| 11 | Beardsworth Allan W | ENG | 2160 | 5.5 | 0 | 29.5 | 1.5 | 2151 | |
| 12 | CM | Pein Jonathan | ENG | 2225 | 5 | 0.5 | 24.3 | 1.5 | 2117 |
| 13 | FM | Storey Charles H | ENG | 2251 | 5 | 0.5 | 24.3 | 0.5 | 2115 |
| 14 | Stubbs Oliver | ENG | 2031 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 2080 | |
| 15 | Nicholas Koichi B | ENG | 2116 | 3.5 | 0 | 26.8 | 2 | 2038 | |
| 16 | Tahmankar Mandar | IND | 2097 | 1.5 | 0 | 10 | 0.5 | 1884 |
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Final rankings – UK Women’s Blitz Chess Championship 2022
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | WGM | Mirzoeva Elmira | FID | 2120 | 12 | 0 | 79.5 | 7 |
| 2 | Sivanandan Bodhana | ENG | 1556 | 11 | 1 | 70.3 | 6 | |
| 3 | Hryshchenko Kamila | ENG | 2039 | 11 | 0 | 62.5 | 5 | |
| 4 | Duessler Stefanie | GER | 2014 | 8.5 | 0.5 | 52 | 4 | |
| 5 | WFM | Grigoryan Meri | ENG | 1918 | 8.5 | 0.5 | 46.8 | 3.5 |
| 6 | Orlovska Madara | LAT | 2045 | 8 | 1 | 41.3 | 2 | |
| 7 | WFM | Henderson De La Fuente Andrea | AND | 1889 | 8 | 0 | 45.5 | 3.5 |
| 8 | WFM | Head Louise | ENG | 1915 | 7.5 | 0 | 37.3 | 2 |
| 9 | Dicen Elis Denele | ENG | 1618 | 7 | 0 | 38.3 | 3 | |
| 10 | Pyun Lindsay | ENG | 1515 | 5.5 | 1 | 28.3 | 2.5 | |
| 11 | Subramanian Anusha | ENG | 1740 | 5.5 | 0 | 29 | 2 | |
| 12 | Karas Eugenia | ENG | 1898 | 5 | 0 | 24.8 | 1.5 | |
| 13 | WIM | Regan Natasha K | ENG | 1873 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 1 |
| 14 | Somton Anita | ENG | 1761 | 3.5 | 0 | 17.3 | 1.5 | |
| 15 | Fuchs Louison | FRA | 1494 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
