British Championship 2022 - Amended Qualification Rules

Some time ago the traditional Candidates / Challengers structure of the British Championship was changed to reduce it to just one qualifying tournament, the 'Candidates'. Sadly Covid and lockdown has meant we have not managed to use this new approach until this year. In 2021 the qualifying event was the hastily arranged British Congress at Leicester.

In 2022 the Candidates tournament will as usual be open to all players who meet both the eligibility requirements and the qualification criteria. Usually qualification is achieved by a player finishing an EGF rated tournament with a GoR of 1900 or more in the 12 months up to March 31st of the championship year. However to keep our promises made in 2020 and 2021, we have amended the qualification criteria for 2022 to include any player who has finished an EGF rated tournament with a GoR of 1900 or more in the three year period April 1st 2019 to 31st March 2022.

Also during this time the EGF has updated their rating algorithm, and recalculated each player's GoR going backwards in time. Typically this means that ratings have improved, though for a very few they may have decreased. The history of grades under both the old and new algorithms can be seen on the EGD. For the 2022 event we will deem a player to have qualified if either rating (the new or the old) satisfies the rule above.

Please note that the pages on our website which show the list of qualifiers will not now be definitive this year. Even if you do not appear on the list it is still possible that you have met the criteria. If you are in any doubt please contact tournaments-chair at britgo.org

Diary Date: Due to the changed 2022 Bank Holidays we have pencilled in Thursday June 2nd to Saturday June 4th for this years Candidates event.