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.

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 :de:Olaf Wegener |Olaf Wegener won Open A Swiss-system tournament with the score 8/10.

2000s

2000

; 28th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

2001

; 29th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
IM Arkadij Naiditsch defeated IM Almira Skripchenko-Lautier in Dortmund Sparkassen Match with the score 7:3.
The Dortmund Sparkassen Man-Machine Match between GM Robert Hübner and Deep Fritz ended in a draw with the score 3:3.

2002

; 30th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
Candidates Tournament
The main event was a Candidates Tournament to determine a challenger for Vladimir Kramnik's Einstein Group World Chess title.
Side events
won Dortmund Open Swiss-system tournament with the score 9/11.
The match between GM Arkadij Naiditsch and GM Jan Timman ended in a draw with the score 4:4.
David Baramidze defeated IM Alisa Marić in Dortmund Sparkassen Match with the score 4½:3½.

2003

; 31st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Victor Bologan qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2003.
IM :de:Yuri Boidman|Yuri Boidman won Dortmund Open A Swiss-system tournament with the score 8/9 and performance rating 2616.
GM :ru:Беликов, Владимир Станиславович|Vladimir Belikov defeated IM David Baramidze in Dortmund Match with the score 6:4.

2004

; 32nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Sergei Rublevsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2004.
Preliminaries
Knockout

2005

; 33rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Emil Sutovsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2005.

2006

; 34th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Baadur Jobava qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2006.

2007

; 35th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Evgeny Alekseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2007.

2008

; 36th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2008.

2009

; 37th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Étienne Bacrot qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2009.

2010s

2010

; 38th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2010.

2011

; 39th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2011.

2012

; 40th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Mateusz Bartel qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2012.

2013

; 41st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

2014

; 42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
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
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
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 qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 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
GM Vladimir Fedoseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2017.

2018

; 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Vladislav Kovalev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2018.

2019

; 47th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
GM Kaido Külaots qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2019.
FM Thomas Michalczak won Sparkassen Chess Meeting Open A swiss-system tournament with the score 7½/9 and performance rating 2533.