2022 World Draughts Championship match

The 2022 World Draughts Championship match was held from January 5 to January 20, 2022, at High Tech Campus Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.[1] It was held under the auspices of the International Draughts Federation (FMJD) and played between the reigning 2021 world champion Alexander Schwartzman and 2018 world champion Roel Boomstra.[1]

Boomstra won the match to capture his third world championship title.[2]

Rules and regulations

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The event was played over 12 games with a time control of 80 minutes plus 1 minute per move. The player who had the highest score won the world title if he won at least three games. If not, the match continued until one of the players reached a third victory in total, with 3 rapid games 20 minutes plus 10 seconds Fischer system, 3 blitz games with a time schedule of 10 minutes and 5 seconds Fischer system, and a Superblitz (limited time for unlimited number of games till 1st victory) tie breaks with a time schedule of 10 minutes and 2 seconds per move Fischer system.

Per regulations, a preliminary tie-breaking games were to be played if the first six games ended in a draw.[3]

Schedule

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Date Local time Event
5 January 2022 11:00 Opening Day & Round 1
6 January 2022 11:00 Round 2
7 January 2022 11:00 Round 3
8 January 2022 N/A Rest-day
9 January 2022 11:00 Round 4
10 January 2022 11:00 Round 5
11 January 2022 11:00 Round 6
12 January 2022 11:00 Tie-break
13 January 2022 11:00 Round 7
14 January 2022 11:00 Round 8
15 January 2022 11:00 Round 9
16 January 2022 N/A Rest-day (tie-break was not played)
17 January 2022 11:00 Round 10
18 January 2022 11:00 Round 11
19 January 2022 11:00 Round 12
20 January 2022 TBC Possible tie-break & Award ceremony

Results

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Regular games

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Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 TB1 7 8 9 10 11 12 TB2 Points Victories
Netherlands Roel Boomstra 2419 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 17 3
Russia Alexander Schwartzman 2400 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 11 0

First tie-break

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Player Rating
rapid/blitz
Rapid
game 1
Rapid
game 2
Rapid
game 3
Blitz
game 1
Blitz
game 2
Blitz
game 3
Superblitz
game 1
Points Victories
Netherlands Roel Boomstra 2443 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 8 1
Russia Alexander Schwartzman 2453 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 6 0

Second tie-break

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Player Rating
rapid/blitz
Rapid
game 1
Rapid
game 2
Rapid
game 3
Blitz
game 1
Blitz
game 2
Blitz
game 3
Superblitz
game 1
Points Victories
Netherlands Roel Boomstra 2443 1 1 2 4 1
Russia Alexander Schwartzman 2453 1 1 0 2 0

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "World Championship Draughts about to start". worldtitlematchdraughts.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Roel Boomstra captures third world title".
  3. ^ "WORLD TITLE MATCH 2022 : Rules and Regulations" (PDF). worldtitlematchdraughts.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
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