Leg 1 of the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 will take place from the 4th to 17th February 2022, it is held in the city centre at Under den Linden in Berlin, Germany. The event is organised by World Chess, live video is available on the official website.

The players are divided into four pools of four, the players in each pool play a double round-robin mini-tournament. The four winners of the pools progress to the knockout stage. Games 1 & 2 will be group A, 3 & 4 group B, 5 & 6 group C and 7 & 8 group D.

Time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves, then an additional 30 minutes for the rest of game, with a 30-second increment from move one.

In case of tiebreaks, two rapid games (15 mins + 10 sec) will be played, if still tied two blitz games (3 mins + 2 sec) and if required an Armageddon game (5 mins white to 4 mins black) where black has draw odds.

Players

Group	Player	Rating
A	Alexander Grischuk	2764
A	Hikaru Nakamura	2736
A	Andrey Esipenko	2714
A	Etienne Bacrot	2642
B	Richard Rapport	2763
B	Vladimir Fedoseev	2704
B	Radoslaw Wojtaszek	2686
B	Grigoriy Oparin	2681
C	Levon Aronian	2772
C	Vidit Gujrathi	2727
C	Daniil Dubov	2720
C	Vincent Keymer	2664
D	Wesley So	2772
D	Leinier Dominguez	2752
D	Pentala Harikrishna	2717
D	Alexei Shirov	2704

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FIDE Grand Prix 2022 Leg 1 | Group stage