The 2022 Candidates Tournament will be an eight-player chess tournament, with the winner qualifying for a match for the World Chess Championship, in 2022 or 2023. No date has been given for the tournament, other than it will be in 2022. The format has not been announced, but every Candidates tournament since 2013 has been a double round-robin tournament. The eight players to qualify will be: A notable departure from recent Candidates tournaments is that no player qualifies on rating.