Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany.

Dortmund is an invite-only event, and only the strongest grandmasters are invited. The exception is that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow, a tournament that anyone with an Elo of at least 2550 is welcome to enter.

The tournament is 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.

Past winners

#	Year	Winner
(1)	1928	Fritz Sämisch
(2)	1951	Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
(3)	1961	Mark Taimanov

1	1973	Heikki Westerinen
2	1974	László Szabó (chess player)
3	1975	Heikki Westerinen
4	1976	Oleg Romanishin
5	1977	Jan Smejkal
6	1978	Ulf Andersson
7	1979	Tamaz Giorgadze
8	1980	Raymond Keene
9	1981	Gennady Kuzmin
10	1982	Vlastimil Hort
11	1983	Mihai Suba
12	1984	Yehuda Gruenfeld
13	1985	Yuri Razuvayev
14	1986	Zoltán Ribli
15	1987	Yuri Balashov
16	1988	Smbat Lputian
17	1989	Efim Geller
18	1990	Alexander Chernin
19	1991	Igor Stohl
20	1992	Garry Kasparov
21	1993	Anatoly Karpov
22	1994	Jeroen Piket
23	1995	Vladimir Kramnik
24	1996	Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand
25	1997	Vladimir Kramnik
26	1998	Vladimir Kramnik Michael Adams and Peter Svidler
27	1999	Péter Lékó
28	2000	Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand
29	2001	Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov
30	2002	Péter Lékó
31	2003	Viktor Bologan
32	2004	Viswanathan Anand
33	2005	Arkadij Naiditsch
34	2006	Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Svidler
35	2007	Vladimir Kramnik
36	2008	Péter Lékó
37	2009	Vladimir Kramnik
38	2010	Ruslan Ponomariov
39	2011	Vladimir Kramnik

References

Winners list and Reports since 1973 by TeleSchach (German)

External links