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The Mediterranean island of Malta hosted the official FIDE World Amateur Championships 2022. The tournament was held from 20 to 30 October and played with several rating groups: U-2300 Elo, U-2000 Elo and U-1700 Elo. The top-ranked women in the U-2300 and U-2000 categories won the Women's World Championships. A separate women's tournament was offered for women players below Elo 1700.
The event attracted a total of 197 players from 51 federations, including 27 title holders. The prize fund was increased from 10,000 euros last year to 15,000 euros.
All Championships were nine round Swiss tournaments. Abilmansur Abdilkhair from Kazakhstan won the U-2300 tournament with 7,5/9, ahead of Zhuban Bigabylov who also comes from Kazakhstan. Top seed Juan David Becerra finished third. The best women player was Meri Grigoryan from England.
The U-2300 winners
The title in the U-2000 category went to Naranbold Sodbilegt from Mongolia, who dominated the tournament from beginning to end and won with 9.0/9. Top seed Matias Hurtado Bahamonde from Chile shared second place with Aasef Alashtar from France.
The U-2000 winners
Tuguldur Soninbayar from Mongolia won the U-1700 group with 7,5/9. He had the same number of points but the better tiebreak than Aleksandr Martynov from Russia who played under the flag of FIDE and also finished with 7.5/9.
Mongolia also won the U-1700 Women's Tournament. Margadgua Erdenebayar won the tournament, in which only 12 players started, with 8.5/9.
Final standings
| 1 | 3 | FM | Abdilkhair Abilmansur | KAZ | 2257 | 7,5 | 0 | 43 | 46,5 | 5 | 7 |
| 2 | 42 | Bigabylov Zhuban | KAZ | 1881 | 7 | 0 | 43 | 46,5 | 4 | 6 | |
| 3 | 1 | FM | Becerra Juan David | COL | 2296 | 6,5 | 0 | 42 | 45 | 5 | 6 |
| 4 | 16 | Hurtado Bahamonde Rodrigo | CHI | 2111 | 6,5 | 0 | 41 | 44,5 | 4 | 6 | |
| 5 | 29 | FM | Singh Arvinder Preet | IND | 2022 | 6 | 0 | 44,5 | 48,5 | 4 | 4 |
| 6 | 8 | FM | Ciganovic Nikola | CRO | 2215 | 6 | 0 | 38,5 | 41,5 | 4 | 5 |
| 7 | 12 | FM | Matras Ondrej | CZE | 2146 | 6 | 0 | 35,5 | 39 | 4 | 4 |
| 8 | 10 | CM | Popiol Michal | POL | 2177 | 5,5 | 0 | 44,5 | 48,5 | 4 | 4 |
| 9 | 2 | FM | Bouget Alexandre | FRA | 2277 | 5,5 | 0 | 44 | 47 | 4 | 4 |
| 10 | 6 | CM | Bendayan Claros Aaron | ESP | 2243 | 5,5 | 0 | 42,5 | 46 | 4 | 5 |
46 players
Final standings
| 1 | 46 | CM | Sodbilegt Naranbold | MGL | 1790 | 9 | 0 | 47 | 49,5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | 1 | Hurtado Bahamonde Matias | CHI | 1990 | 7 | 0 | 41 | 43,5 | 5 | 6 | |
| 3 | 7 | Alashtar Aasef | FRA | 1969 | 7 | 0 | 40,5 | 44,5 | 5 | 6 | |
| 4 | 34 | Peter Anand A | IND | 1872 | 6,5 | 0 | 51,5 | 53,5 | 5 | 6 | |
| 5 | 43 | Ainakul Mukhtar | KAZ | 1806 | 6,5 | 0 | 47 | 51 | 5 | 6 | |
| 6 | 10 | Cuesta Cifuentes Jair Alfonso | COL | 1962 | 6,5 | 0 | 47 | 50,5 | 5 | 5 | |
| 7 | 17 | Stoychev Ognian | BUL | 1949 | 6,5 | 0 | 46,5 | 49 | 5 | 6 | |
| 8 | 15 | Navarro Rico Lluis | ESP | 1953 | 6,5 | 0 | 40 | 43,5 | 5 | 6 | |
| 9 | 21 | Baliuniene Margarita | LTU | 1927 | 6 | 0 | 44 | 46,5 | 5 | 5 | |
| 10 | 5 | Klein Raimund | GER | 1978 | 6 | 0 | 38,5 | 42,5 | 5 | 5 |
75 players
Games
U-1700
Final standings
| Rk. | Name | Elo | Pts. | Tb1 | |
| 1 | AIM | Tuguldur Soninbayar | 0 | 7,5 | 0 |
| 2 | Martynov Aleksandr | 0 | 7,5 | 0 | |
| 3 | Farhaan M | 1632 | 7 | 1 | |
| 4 | Otgonbayar Bat-Erdene | 1411 | 7 | 1 | |
| 5 | Kao Jamison Edrich | 1630 | 7 | 1 | |
| 6 | AIM | Sushrutha Reddy | 1424 | 6,5 | 0 |
| 7 | Wong Finsen | 1499 | 6,5 | 0 | |
| 8 | AGM | Pathak Anshu Kr | 1512 | 6 | 0 |
| 9 | Ortega Herrera Paris Francisco | 1667 | 6 | 0 | |
| 10 | Fleri Luke | 1596 | 6 | 0 |
64 players
Games
Final standings
| 1 | 1 | Margadgua Erdenebayar | MGL | 1667 | 8,5 | 0 | 42,5 | 44,5 | 4 | 8 |
| 2 | 2 | Alipbek Arailym | KAZ | 1630 | 7 | 0 | 41,5 | 42,5 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | 4 | Amulya Guruprasad | IND | 1537 | 6,5 | 0 | 40,5 | 40,5 | 5 | 6 |
| 4 | 6 | Mouza Almaamari | UAE | 1362 | 5,5 | 0 | 42,5 | 42,5 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 3 | Von Beckh Frieda | GER | 1615 | 5 | 1 | 37 | 37 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | 9 | Rani Puja | IND | 1156 | 5 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 5 | 4 |
| 7 | 5 | Cuthbert Larissa | ENG | 1396 | 4,5 | 0 | 42,5 | 42,5 | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | 11 | Brenska Sara | POL | 0 | 4,5 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 5 | 4 |
| 9 | 7 | Aysha Nasser H Alshamsi | UAE | 1345 | 4,5 | 0 | 38 | 38 | 4 | 4 |
| 10 | 8 | Jaramillo Amparo | COL | 1306 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 41 | 5 | 2 |
| 11 | 10 | Thornton Hayley | MLT | 1145 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 39 | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | 12 | Mahra Khalifa Al Neyadi | UAE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37,5 | 38,5 | 5 | 0 |
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