Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
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The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every July in Dortmund, Germany. It is one of the three "majors" on the chess tournament circuit along with Corus and Linares. The reigning champion is Vladimir Kramnik.
Dortmund is an invite-only event, and only the strongest grandmasters are invited. The exception is that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow, a tournament that anyone is welcome to enter.
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 was chosen to determine a fourth candidate for the World Championship unification matches. Péter Lékó won, defeating Veselin Topalov in the finals.
[edit] Past winners
- 1992: Garry Kasparov and Vassily Ivanchuk
- 1993: Anatoly Karpov
- 1994: Jeroen Piket
- 1995: Vladimir Kramnik
- 1996: Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand
- 1997: Vladimir Kramnik
- 1998: Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams and Peter Svidler
- 1999: Péter Lékó
- 2000: Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand
- 2001: Vladimir Kramnik
- 2002: Péter Lékó
- 2003: Viktor Bologan
- 2004: Viswanathan Anand
- 2005: Arkadij Naiditsch
- 2006: Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Svidler
