The 2nd Edition of Safia Memorial Azadi Cup Rapid Chess Championship 2022, will be held on 21st August at Pearl Continental Hotel, Lahore.

The Tournament Director, Mr. Muhammad Zahid explained that the Championship will have 6 rounds under Swiss System and the participants will be playing in following three categories – Men, Women and Under 14.

In regards with the player registration, Chief Organiser, Ms. Sidra Butt informed that the player registration process has been completed much earlier then 18th August which was the set last date.

The final list of the three categories, which includes in total 62 players as per tournament set limit is as follows:

Men Category

1. Umer Kashif

2. Asad Ullah Khan

3. Syed Ijaz Azeem

4. Saad Ahmad

5. Muhammad Hassan Zaman

6.     Zorez Shabkhez

7.     Tanveer Gillani

8.     Khalid Ashraf

9.     Agha Faisal

10.   Aqib Javed Butt

11.   Hazza Tariq

12.   Shams e Rehmat

13.   Waqas

14.   Muhammad Umair

15.   Irfan Aslam

16.   Muhammad Sameer

17.   Adil Gillani

18.   Waheed Razzaq

19.   Faizan Ahmed

20.   Nazar Hussain

21.   Rashad Rafique

22.   Muhammad Luqman

23.   Nayab Siddiqui

24.   Bilal Mazhar

25.   Muhammad Saif ullah

26.   Ghazanfar Ali

27.   Iftikhar Ali Malik

28.   Junaid Sohail

29.   Zaman Sohail

30.   Muhammad Umar Farooq

Women Category

1. Kashaf Kamran

2. Noor Fatima Rashid

3. Aleena Zulfiqar

4. Hafsa Qamar

5. Amna Fatima

6. Mehak Gul

7. Aleena Zahid

8. Aayat Asmi

9. Tehreem Akhtar

10. Mahnoor Jamali

11. Tajwar Binte Tariq

12. Farah Majeed

13. Sumaira Nazish

14. Sehba Shah

15. Labeeqa 

16. Biha Nazeer

U14 Category

1. Iyaad Moeed Ahmed

2. Ashaz Hussain Ali

3. Ahmed Moeed Yusuf

4. Amr Iftikhar Hashmi

5. Aria Sakinah Butt

6. Issam Bashir

7. Abdullah Zahid

8. Aimen Ijaz

9. Mysha Furqan

10. Syed Mueez Mohiuddin

11. Seemal Sohail

12. Sadeem Sohail

13. Aziz Moiz Ali

14. Dua Moiz Ali

15. Daniyaal Lukhesar

16. Muhammad Hashim Farooq