The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting was until 2020 an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany. 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 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 (see No Castling Chess). It is accompanied by large open events and invite-only cup competitions. The title sponsor is Sparkasse Dortmund, the local public savings bank.

List of winners

! # !! Year !! Winner

Events by year

1990s

1990

1991

1992

1993

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! SB !! TPR

1994

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! SB !! TPR

1995

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! SB !! TPR

1996

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! SB !! TPR

1997

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! TPR !! Place 🇩🇪 GM Romuald Mainka won Open A tournament with the result 7½ out of 9.

1998

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! SB !! TPR

1999

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! TPR ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! TPR 17-year-old 🇩🇪 Olaf Wegener won Open A Swiss-system tournament with the score 8/10.

2000s

2000

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! SB !! TPR ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! TPR

2001

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! Points !! TPR 🇩🇪 IM Arkadij Naiditsch (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 (2612) and Deep Fritz ended in a draw with the score 3:3 (all the games were drawn).

2002

Candidates Tournament

The main event was a Candidates Tournament to determine a challenger for Vladimir Kramnik's Einstein Group World Chess title. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! Points !! TB !! TPR ! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! Points !! Place !! TPR ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! Points !! TPR

Side events

🇦🇲 IM Tigran Nalbandian (2458) won Dortmund Open Swiss-system tournament with the score 9/11. The match between 🇩🇪 GM Arkadij Naiditsch (2581) and 🇳🇱 GM Jan Timman (2623) ended in a draw with the score 4:4. 🇩🇪 David Baramidze (2351) defeated IM Alisa Marić (2470) in Dortmund Sparkassen Match with the score 4½:3½.

2003

🇲🇩 GM Victor Bologan qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2003. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! Points !! TPR 🇩🇪 IM Yuri Boidman (2407) won Dortmund Open A Swiss-system tournament with the score 8/9 and performance rating 2616. 🇷🇺 GM Vladimir Belikov (2499) defeated 🇩🇪 IM David Baramidze (2470) in Dortmund Match with the score 6:4.

2004

🇷🇺 GM Sergei Rublevsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2004.

Preliminaries

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! Points !! TPR ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! Points !! TB !! TPR ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! Points !! TPR

Knockout

! Place !! Player !! Rating

2005

🇮🇱 GM Emil Sutovsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2005. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! TPR

2006

GM Baadur Jobava qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2006. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! SB !! TPR

2007

🇷🇺 GM Evgeny Alekseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2007. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! TPR

2008

🇷🇺 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2008. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! TPR

2009

🇫🇷 GM Étienne Bacrot qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2009. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! Points !! TPR

2010s

2010

GM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2010. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! Points !! SB !! TPR

2011

GM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2011. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! Points !! SB !! Wins !! TPR

2012

🇵🇱 GM Mateusz Bartel qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2012. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! Black !! Wins !! SB !! TPR

2013

! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! 9 !! 10 !! Points !! Wins !! TPR

2014

The 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. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! Wins !! TPR

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 Arkadij Naiditsch before his transfer to the Azerbaijan Chess Federation. 🇷🇺 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2015. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! Black !! TPR

2016

The 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. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! Black !! Wins !! TPR

2017

🇷🇺 GM Vladimir Fedoseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2017. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! Black !! Wins !! SB !! TPR

2018

🇧🇾 GM Vladislav Kovalev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2018. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! Black !! Wins !! SB !! TPR

2019

🇪🇪 GM Kaido Külaots qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2019. ! !! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! 7 !! 8 !! Points !! Black !! Wins !! SB !! TPR 🇩🇪 FM Thomas Michalczak (2239) won Sparkassen Chess Meeting Open A swiss-system tournament with the score 7½/9 and performance rating 2533.

2020s

2021

2022

2023

2024

The 2024 edition features a 6-games standard rules match between the top 2 German women, GM Elisabeth Pähtz versus IM Dinara Wagner, alongside open tournaments. The Open A tournament is included in the 2024 FIDE Circuit. ! Player !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! 5 !! 6 !! Total ! 3 ! 3 ! !! Player !! Rating ! Points !! TB ! Circuit ! 7½/9 ! 7/9 ! 7/9 ! 7/9 ! 7/9 ! 7/9 ! 7/9 ! 6½/9 ! 6½/9 ! 6½/9 ! 6½/9 ! 6½/9 ! 6½/9