The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite

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tournament held every summer in

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. Dortmund is an invite-only event, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual

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. 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

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for the

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won, defeating

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in the finals. The title sponsor is Sparkasse Dortmund.

List of winners

Events by year

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

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with the score 8/10.

2000s

2000

; 28th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 7 – 16, 2000) : :

2001

; 29th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 12 – 22, 2001) : IM

Arkadij Naiditsch Arkadij Naiditsch ( az, Arkadi Naydiç; born 25 October 1985) is an Azerbaijani (since 2015) chess grandmaster who previously represented Latvia (until 2005) and Germany (2005–2015). Career In 1995 he won the European Under-10 champ ...

( 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 Robert Hübner (born November 6, 1948) is a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s. Chess career At eighteen, he was joint winner of the West German Chess ...

( 2612) and

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ended in a draw with the score 3:3 (all the games were drawn).

2002

; 30th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 6 – 21, 2002)

=Candidates Tournament

= The main event was a

to determine a challenger for

Vladimir Kramnik Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Cha ...

's Einstein Group World Chess title. : : :

=Side events

= IM Tigran Nalbandian ( 2458) won Dortmund Open

with the score 9/11. The match between GM

( 2581) and GM

Jan Timman Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess grandmaster who was one of the world's leading chess players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career, he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as ...

( 2623) ended in a draw with the score 4:4.

David Baramidze David Baramidze ( ka, დავით ბარამიძე, ''Davit' Baramidze''; born September 27, 1988) is a German chess Grandmaster. Baramidze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. He obtained the title of Grandmaster in 2004, which made him t ...

( 2351) defeated IM

Alisa Marić Alisa Marić, PhD (Serbian Cyrillic: Алиса Марић, ; born 10 January 1970) is a Serbian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and International Master (IM). On 27 July 2012, she was elected as Minister of ...

( 2470) in Dortmund Sparkassen Match with the score 4½:3½.

2003

; 31st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 31 – August 10, 2003) GM

Victor Bologan Victor (Viorel) Bologan (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess player and author. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1991. Career Bologan won the first two editions of the Poikovsky Karpov International Tournament, in 200 ...

qualified as the winner of

2003. : IM Yuri Boidman ( 2407) won Dortmund Open A

with the score 8/9 and

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2616. GM Vladimir Belikov ( 2499) defeated IM

( 2470) in Dortmund Match with the score 6:4.

2004

; 32nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 22 – August 1, 2004) GM

Sergei Rublevsky Sergei Rublevsky (born 15 October 1974) is a Russian chess grandmaster (1994). He has won four team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiads. He won the prestigious Aeroflot Open in 2004, and became the 58th Russian chess ch ...

qualified as the winner of

2004.

=Preliminaries

= : : :

=Knockout

= :

2005

; 33rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 8 – 17, 2005) GM

Emil Sutovsky Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since 2022. Previously he served as FIDE Director-General (2018-22). He was the ...

qualified as the winner of

2005. :

2006

; 34th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 29 – August 6, 2006) GM

Baadur Jobava Baadur Jobava ( ka, ბაადურ ჯობავა; born 26 November 1983) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and three-time Georgian champion (2003, 2007, 2012). He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2004 and in the FIDE Wor ...

qualified as the winner of

2006. :

2007

; 35th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 23 – July 1, 2007) GM Evgeny Alekseev qualified as the winner of

2007. :

2008

; 36th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 28 – July 6, 2008) GM

Ian Nepomniachtchi Ian Alexandrovich Nepomniachtchi ( rus, Ян Алекса́ндрович Непо́мнящий, r=Yan Aleksandrovich Nepomnyashchiy, p=ˈjan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈpomnʲɪɕːɪj, a=Ru-Ian Alexandrovich Nepomnyashchij.ogg; born 14 J ...

qualified as the winner of

2008. :

2009

; 37th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 2 – 12, 2009) GM

Étienne Bacrot Étienne Bacrot (; born 22 January 1983) is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy. He competed at the Candidates Matches in 2007 and won the Aeroflot Open in 2009. He passed 2700 FIDE rating in 2004 and in January 2005 ...

qualified as the winner of

2009. :

2010s

2010

; 38th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 15–25, 2010) GM

Lê Quang Liêm Lê Quang Liêm (born 13 March 1991) is a Vietnamese chess grandmaster, the top-ranked of his country. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Liêm is the current Asian champion and was the World Blitz Chess Champion in 2013. ...

qualified as the winner of

2010. :

2011

; 39th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 21 – 31, 2011) GM

qualified as the winner of

2011. :

2012

; 40th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 13 – 22, 2012) GM

Mateusz Bartel Mateusz Bartel (born 3 January 1985) is a Polish chess Grandmaster. He won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Career Bartel learnt to play the game at the age of 6 from his father when he and his younger brother were ...

qualified as the winner of

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 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. :

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

before his transfer to the

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Chess Federation. GM

qualified as the winner of

2015. :

2016

; 44th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 9 – 17, 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. GM

Evgeniy Najer Evgeniy Yuryevich Najer (russian: Евгений Юревич Наер, translit=Evgeniy Yuryevich Nayer; born 22 June 1977) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the European champion of 2015. He is also one of the coaches of the Russian women's n ...

qualified as the winner of

2016. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won the tournament on July 16th 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 Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Федосе́ев; born 16 February 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2015, 2017, and 2021. Career Fedoseev tied fo ...

qualified as the winner of

2017. :

2018

; 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 14 – 22, 2018) GM

Vladislav Kovalev Vladislav Vladimirovich Kovalev (russian: Владислав Владимирович Ковалёв; born 6 January 1994) is a Belarusian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He was Belarusian Chess Champion in 2016. Chess ...

qualified as the winner of

2018. :

2019

; 47th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 13 – 21, 2019) GM

Kaido Külaots Kaido Külaots (born 28 February 1976) is an Estonian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. He has won the Estonian Chess Championship in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2020. Külaots has represe ...

qualified as the winner of

2019. : FM Thomas Michalczak ( 2239) won Sparkassen Chess Meeting Open A

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with the score 7½/9 and performance rating 2533.

References

Winners list and Reports since 1973
by

Gerhard Hund Gerhard Friedrich Hund (born February 4, 1932 in Leipzig) is a German chess player, mathematician and computer scientist. Biography He is the oldest son of physicist Friedrich Hund (1896–1997). He studied at the Friedrich Schiller University ...

(German)

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