GM Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli and IM Marta García Martín are the new champions of Spain.

The 2022 Spanish Championship, a 9-round Swiss tournament with classical time control, took place from 11-18 August in the halls of the hotel "RL Aníbal" in Linares. Both men and women competed in one event but were ranked separately, with the highest-scoring female player claiming the title of Spanish Women's Champion.

The tournament turned into a close race of several top-rated players, with Eduardo Iturrizaga, Daniil Yuffa and Pedro Antonio Gines Esteo coming into the final round as joint leaders on 6½/8. Yuffa and Gines Esteo faced each other and split a point while the defending champion, Iturrizaga Bonelli, defeated Perez Candelario in style and claimed his second straight national title.

There was a three-way tie for second place, with tiebreaks favouring Daniil Yuffa (silver) and the rating favourite Jaime Santos Latasa (bronze). Although IM Pedro Antonio Gines Esteo did not make it to the podium finishing fourth, he won the U18 prize and picked 17 rating points.

IM Marta García Martín scored 6 points and became Spanish Women's Champion for the first time in her career. The defending champion IM Sabrina Vega Gutiérrez netted an equal amount of points but had to settle for silver due to inferior tiebreaks. WIM Yudania Hernández Estévez closed the top three female winners scoring 4½ points. 

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