Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting
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The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer 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 with an Elo of at least 2550 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 served as the Candidates Tournament for the Classical World Chess Championship 2004. Péter Lékó won, defeating Veselin Topalov in the finals.
[edit] Past winners
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# Year Winner (1) 1928 Fritz Sämisch (2) 1951 Albéric O'Kelly de Galway (3) 1961 Mark Taimanov 1 1973 Hans-Joachim Hecht 2 1974 Victor Ciocâltea 3 1975 Heikki Westerinen 4 1976 Oleg Romanishin 5 1977 Jan Smejkal 6 1978 Ulf Andersson 7 1979 Tamaz Giorgadze 8 1980 Raymond Keene 9 1981 Gennady Kuzmin 10 1982 Vlastimil Hort 11 1983 Mihai Suba 12 1984 Yehuda Gruenfeld 13 1985 Yuri Razuvayev 14 1986 Zoltán Ribli 15 1987 Yuri Balashov 16 1988 Smbat Lputian 17 1989 Efim Geller 18 1990 Alexander Chernin 19 1991 Igor Stohl 20 1992 Garri Kasparov 21 1993 Anatoly Karpov 22 1994 Jeroen Piket 23 1995 Vladimir Kramnik 24 1996 Vladimir Kramnik 25 1997 Vladimir Kramnik 26 1998 Vladimir Kramnik 27 1999 Péter Lékó 28 2000 Vladimir Kramnik 29 2001 Vladimir Kramnik 30 2002 Péter Lékó 31 2003 Viktor Bologan 32 2004 Viswanathan Anand 33 2005 Arkadij Naiditsch 34 2006 Vladimir Kramnik 35 2007 Vladimir Kramnik
