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Annual elite chess tournament in Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an open chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany. Until 2020, Dortmund was an invite-only event, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund was awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow. After an interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was relaunched as the Sparkassen Chess Trophy International Dortmund Chess Days.

The elite tournament was usually played in a round-robin or double round-robin format. However, it took the form of a series of heads-up matches in 2002 and 2004. The 2002 Dortmund event was also notable in that it served as the Candidates Tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004. Péter Lékó won, defeating Veselin Topalov in the finals.[1]
A flagship event of the newer incarnation is the "No Castling Masters", played according to No Castling Chess rules. It is accompanied by large open events and invite-only cup competitions.
The title sponsor is Sparkasse Dortmund,[2] the local public savings bank.
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1990s
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
GM Romuald Mainka won Open A tournament with the result 7½ out of 9.
1998
1999
17-year-old Olaf Wegener won Open A Swiss-system tournament with the score 8/10.
2000s
2000
- 28th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 7 – 16, 2000)[3]
2001
- 29th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 12 – 22, 2001)[4]
IM Arkadij Naiditsch (2524) defeated
IM Almira Skripchenko-Lautier (2494) in Dortmund Sparkassen Match with the score 7:3.
The Dortmund Sparkassen Man-Machine Match between GM Robert Hübner (2612) and Deep Fritz ended in a draw with the score 3:3 (all the games were drawn).
2002
- 30th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 6 – 21, 2002)[5]
Candidates Tournament
The main event was a Candidates Tournament to determine a challenger for Vladimir Kramnik's Einstein Group World Chess title.
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Side events
IM Tigran Nalbandian (2458) won Dortmund Open Swiss-system tournament with the score 9/11.
The match between GM Arkadij Naiditsch (2581) and
GM Jan Timman (2623) ended in a draw with the score 4:4.
David Baramidze (2351) defeated
IM Alisa Marić (2470) in Dortmund Sparkassen Match with the score 4½:3½.
2003
- 31st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 31 – August 10, 2003)[7]
GM Victor Bologan qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2003.
IM Yuri Boidman (2407) won Dortmund Open A Swiss-system tournament with the score 8/9 and performance rating 2616.
GM Vladimir Belikov (2499) defeated
IM David Baramidze (2470) in Dortmund Match with the score 6:4.
2004
- 32nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 22 – August 1, 2004)[8]
GM Sergei Rublevsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2004.
Preliminaries
Knockout
Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
1A | ![]() | 4 | |||||||
2B | ![]() | 2 | |||||||
1A | ![]() | 2½ | |||||||
1B | ![]() | 1½ | |||||||
2A | ![]() | 3 | |||||||
1B | ![]() | 5 | Third place | ||||||
2B | ![]() | 1½ | |||||||
2A | ![]() | 2½ |
Playoffs 5th-8th | Playoffs 5th-6th | ||||||||
3A | ![]() | 2 | |||||||
4B | ![]() | 0 | |||||||
3A | ![]() | 1½ | |||||||
4A | ![]() | ½ | |||||||
4A | ![]() | 3 | |||||||
3B | ![]() | 1 | Playoffs 7th-8th | ||||||
4B | ![]() | ½ | |||||||
3B | ![]() | 1½ |
2005
- 33rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 8 – 17, 2005)
GM Emil Sutovsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2005.
2006
- 34th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 29 – August 6, 2006)
GM Baadur Jobava qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2006.
2007
- 35th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 23 – July 1, 2007)
GM Evgeny Alekseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2007.
2008
- 36th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 28 – July 6, 2008)
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2008.
2009
- 37th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 2 – 12, 2009)
GM Étienne Bacrot qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2009.
2010s
2010
- 38th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 15–25, 2010)
GM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2010.
2011
- 39th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 21 – 31, 2011)
GM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2011.
2012
- 40th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 13 – 22, 2012)
GM Mateusz Bartel qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2012.
2013
- 41st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 26 – August 4, 2013)
2014
- 42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 12 – 20, 2014)
The 42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place between July 12 and July 20, 2014, in the "Orchesterzentrum NRW" in Dortmund, Germany. The eight-player round-robin tournament consisted of 7 games of Classical Chess. The field was led by Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, and Michael Adams. Players received 100 minutes for 40 moves, then an additional 50 minutes for 20 additional moves, and finally 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
2015
- 43rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 27 – July 5, 2015)
The 43rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place between June 27 to July 5 in the "Orchesterzentrum NRW" in Dortmund, Germany. The eight-player round-robin tournament consisted of 7 games of Classical Chess. The field was led by Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, and Wesley So. Players received 100 minutes for 40 moves, then an additional 50 minutes for 20 additional moves, and finally 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
The tournament was also the final Dortmund appearance for Arkadij Naiditsch before his transfer to the Azerbaijan Chess Federation.
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2015.
2016
- 44th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 9 – 17, 2016)
The 44th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place between July 9 to 17 in the "Orchesterzentrum NRW" in Dortmund, Germany. The eight-player round-robin tournament consisted of 7 games of Classical Chess. The field was led by Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Players received 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 additional moves, then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
GM Evgeniy Najer qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2016.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the tournament on July 16 with 1 game to spare. This was his first Dortmund tournament victory.
2017
- 45th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 15 – 23, 2017)
GM Vladimir Fedoseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2017.
2018
- 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 14 – 22, 2018)
GM Vladislav Kovalev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2018.
2019
- 47th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 13 – 21, 2019)
GM Kaido Külaots qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2019.
FM Thomas Michalczak (2239) won Sparkassen Chess Meeting Open A swiss-system tournament with the score 7½/9 and performance rating 2533.
2020s
2021
2022
2023
2024
The 2024 edition features a 6-games standard rules match between the top 2 German women, GM Elisabeth Pähtz versus IM Dinara Wagner, alongside open tournaments. The Open A tournament is included in the 2024 FIDE Circuit.
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Notes
- With the same score as
Viswanathan Anand; won on tiebreak because of higher Sonneborn–Berger score.
- With the same score as
Michael Adams and
Peter Svidler; won on tiebreak because of higher Sonneborn–Berger score.
- With the same score as
Viswanathan Anand; won on tiebreak because of higher Sonneborn–Berger score.
- With the same score as
Veselin Topalov; won on tiebreak.
- With the same score as
Peter Svidler; won on tiebreak because of higher Sonneborn–Berger score.
- With the same score as
Sergey Karjakin; won on tiebreak because of more wins.
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