Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an open chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany. Until 2020, Dortmund was an invite-only event, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund was awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow. After an interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting was relaunched as the Sparkassen Chess Trophy International Dortmund Chess Days.
The elite tournament was 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.
A flagship event of the newer incarnation is the "No Castling Masters", played according to No Castling Chess rules. It is accompanied by large open events and invite-only cup competitions.
The title sponsor is Sparkasse Dortmund, the local public savings bank.
Events by year
1990s
1997
2000s
2000
; 28th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting2001
; 29th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting2002
; 30th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingCandidates Tournament
The main event was a Candidates Tournament to determine a challenger for Vladimir Kramnik's Einstein Group World Chess title.Side events
IM Tigran Nalbandian 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 MeetingGM Victor Bologan qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2003.
2004
; 32nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Sergei Rublevsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2004.
Preliminaries
Knockout
2005
; 33rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Emil Sutovsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2005.
2006
; 34th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Baadur Jobava qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2006.
2007
; 35th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Evgeny Alekseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2007.
2008
; 36th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2008.
2009
; 37th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Étienne Bacrot qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2009.
2010s
2010
; 38th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2010.
2011
; 39th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2011.
2012
; 40th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Mateusz Bartel qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2012.
2013
; 41st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting2014
; 42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingThe 42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place between July 12 and July 20, 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 MeetingThe 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 MeetingThe 44th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place between July 9 to 17 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 16 with 1 game to spare. This was his first Dortmund tournament victory.
2017
; 45th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Vladimir Fedoseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2017.
2018
; 46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Vladislav Kovalev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2018.
2019
; 47th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess MeetingGM Kaido Külaots qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2019.