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, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow.
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.
The title sponsor is Sparkasse Dortmund.[1]
List of winners
41st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 26th - August 4th, 2013)
41st GM 2013 Dortmund GER: Category XIX (2709) Pl. Player FIDE Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points Wins TPR 1 
Michael Adams (England)2740 X ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 7 5 2925 2 
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)2784 ½ X 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 6½ 5 2866 3 
Péter Lékó (Hungary)2737 ½ 0 X 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4½ 1 2705 4 
Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany)2710 0 ½ 0 X 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 4½ 3 2708 5 Dmitry Andreikin (Russia)2727 0 1 ½ 0 X ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 4 2 2664 6 George Meier (Russia)2610 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ X ½ 0 ½ ½ 4 1 2677 7 
Fabiano Caruana (Italy)2796 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ X 0 ½ 1 4 2 2656 8 
Wang Hao (China)2752 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 X 0 1 4 3 2661 9 Igor Khenkin (Germany)2605 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 X ½ 3½ 1 2640 10 Daniel Fridman (Germany)2629 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ X 3 0 2592
42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 12th - 20th, 2014)
The 42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place between July 12 and July 20th, 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.
42nd GM 2014 Dortmund GER: Category XIX (2715) Pl. Player FIDE Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points Wins TPR 1 Fabiano Caruana (Italy)2789 X ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 5½ 5 2934 2 Péter Lékó (Hungary)2737 ½ X ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 4 3 2762 3 George Meier (Germany)2632 0 ½ X 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 4 2 2777 4 Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany)2705 ½ 0 0 X ½ 1 ½ 1 3½ 3 2716 5 Michael Adams (England)2743 0 ½ ½ ½ X ½ ½ 1 3½ 1 2711 6 
Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine)2723 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ X 1 ½ 3 1 2664 7 Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)2777 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 X ½ 2½ 0 2604 8 David Baramidze (Germany)2616 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ X 2 0 2571
43rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 27th - July 5th, 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.
43rd GM 2015 Dortmund GER: Category XIX (2724) Pl. Player FIDE Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points Wins TPR 1 
Fabiano Caruana (USA)2805 X 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 5½ 5 2942 2 Wesley So (USA)2778 1 X 0 1 1 0 ½ ½ 4 3 2766 3 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Germany)2654 0 1 X ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 4 2 2784 4 Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)2783 0 0 ½ X 1 0 1 1 3½ 3 2715 5 Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia)2720 ½ 0 ½ 0 X 1 ½ ½ 3 1 2674 6 Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany)2722 0 1 0 1 0 X ½ ½ 3 2 2674 7 Hou Yifan (China)2676 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ X ½ 2½ 0 2628 8 George Meier (Germany)2654 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ X 2½ 0 2632
44th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 9th - 17th, 2016)
The 44th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place between July 9th to 17th 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.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the tournament on July 16th with 1 game to spare. This was his first Dortmund tournament victory.
44th GM 2016 Dortmund GER: Category XIX (2732) Pl. Player FIDE Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points Wins SB TPR 1 
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)2798 X ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 5½ 4 16.75 2954 2 Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)2812 ½ X ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 4 1 2771 3 Fabiano Caruana (USA)2810 0 ½ X ½ ½ ½ 1 1 4 2 2771 4 
Leinier Domínguez (Cuba)2713 ½ ½ ½ X 1 ½ ½ ½ 4 1 2786 5 Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine)2706 0 ½ ½ 0 X ½ 1 1 3½ 2 2735 6 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Germany)2674 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ X ½ ½ 3½ 0 2740 7 Evgeniy Najer (Russia)2687 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ X 1 2 1 5.25 2574 8 Rainer Buhmann (Germany)2653 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 X 1½ 0 5.75 2512
References
- ^ "Kramnik and Anand to clash in Dortmund". ChessBase. 2003-06-30. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- Winners list and Reports since 1973 by Gerhard Hund (German)
External links
- DORTMUND SPARKASSEN CHESS MEETING 2005
- The Games of Dortmund Sparkassen 2005
- Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2007
- 2008 edition from TWIC
