See here: [Regulations for the 2022 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship](handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/FRCCRegulations2022.pdf) What do you think? # Championship privilege - full for Magnus, partial for Wesley: * 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021: * Magnus has the [full championship privilege](redd.it/rva177) to face just 1 challenger. * 2022: * Wesley has to face more than 1 challenger: Group stage and then knockout stage. Eh, at least it's partial championship privilege in that Wesley doesn't have to start from scratch unlike the world rapid & world blitz cases. # Time controls - half compared to last time: * 2019 WFRCC: * Slow rapid: 45 min for 40 moves + 15 min for the rest * Fast rapid: 15 min + 2 s increment --> Ok fine, but at least the winners of the slow rapid portions were the winners of their matches. * 2022 WFRCC: * All: 30 moves in 25 minutes, plus 5 minutes for the rest of the game, plus (...) --- More here: https://reddit.com/xsbn68