Talk:Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
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Old talk[edit]
In the other supertournaments (Corus and Linares) we provide names of joint winners since tie break methods keep changing during a tournament's history. I think it makes no sense to use tie breaks anymore (e.g., in Linares 2005 Topalov beat Kasparov head to head, but Kasaparov was given the title after both players tied on points due to the use of some other tie break method). In Dortmund, they have alternated between using head to head verus SB tie breaks it seems.
Who won the 1973 edition?[edit]
Was it Hans-Joachim Hecht, as the german wikipedia says? Or was it Westerinen as [1] says? Perhaps there were two tournaments, as Megabase from chessbase has a tournament in 1973 in Dortmund in which Westerinen didn't even come close to winning! Voorlandt (talk) 18:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
- It was indeed Hecht, but both of my sources (Hooper & Whyld and Golombek) give it as a shared victory with Boris Spassky and Ulf Andersson. Brittle heaven (talk) 09:35, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
"Heads-up matches"[edit]
I'm not really familiar with the use of the term "heads-up matches" in the context of a chess tournament. The term is used in poker, but a poker game often features more than two players; a tournament chess game never does. Does this mean knock-out matches? Single-elimination tournament is a term I understand in a chess context. Quale (talk) 22:55, 25 February 2008 (UTC)