Dortmund Chess Days
The Dortmund Chess Days (since 2020 Sparkassen chess Trophy , previously Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting ) are one of the most renowned chess tournaments worldwide. It takes place every summer. Up until 1990, the venues were mostly the Westfalenhalle (also in 1992), 1991 and 1993 the vocational support organization in Dortmund- Hacheney , from 1994 to 2013 the Dortmund Opera House and the Dortmund Playhouse , and from 2014 to 2019 the Orchestra Center NRW .
Every year at the Dortmund Chess Days there is an invitation tournament for grandmasters , which is one of the busiest chess tournaments of the year and was on a par with the famous tournaments in Wijk aan Zee , Linares etc. At the same time as the GM tournament, the Open (A, B, C), which are open to players of all levels, take place every year.
From 2020 the organizer of the Dortmund Chess Days is the Initiative pro Schach (IPS).
history
The traditional tournament was held for the first time in 1973 after the International German Championship (winner: Hans-Joachim Hecht ) and was won by Heikki Westerinen . As a result, it was increasingly occupied. In Dortmund previously, three important tournaments took place in 1928, 1951 and 1961 , which are considered to be the forerunners of the Chess Days. An international women's chess tournament was held in 1982 as part of the Dortmund Chess Days .
For several of the world's elite players, the tournament was a starting point in their careers: In 1991, Péter Lékó took part for the first time , and in 1992 the then untitled Wladimir Kramnik won the A-Open. The 1992 GM tournament was the strongest tournament ever held in Germany. It was won by world champion Garry Kasparov , although he lost two games (against Gata Kamsky and Robert Huebner ).
The 28th International Dortmund Chess Days / Chess Meeting 2000 took place from July 7th to 16th, 2000 . The then world champion Alexander Chhalifman and Kramnik, who won the super tournament, took part. The super tournament was held in Dortmund's Schauspielhaus, while a GM tournament and two OPENs took place in the opera house. A delegation from the world chess federation FIDE visited Dortmund for a working conference (chairman was Willy Iclicki).
In 2002 the tournament was held as a candidate tournament in order to determine a challenger for a World Cup fight against Kramnik (for the course of the tournament, see World Chess Championship 2004 ). The winner of the Aeroflot Open has been invited as a participant since 2003 .
In 2005 the tournament reached category 19 , which means that the average rating of the participants was over 2700. It was surprisingly won by a German for the first time, the young grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch , who also became the youngest winner of the Dortmund Chess Days to date. Most of the wins in Dortmund were achieved by Wladimir Kramnik, who has won the tournament ten times so far.
In 2006 the tournament took place from July 28th to August 6th. Among the participants were six players from the current top ten in the world rankings. Wladimir Kramnik was the winner of the tournament, tied with Pjotr Swidler .
In 2007 the tournament took place from June 23rd to July 1st. It played Viswanathan Anand , Kramnik, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , Lékó, Boris Gelfand , Naiditsch, Magnus Carlsen and Yevgeny Alexeyev . The Elo average was 2727, which corresponds to the tournament in category 20. Kramnik won with 5 points from 7 games.
In 2008 Kramnik, Məmmədyarov, Lékó, Wassyl Iwantschuk , Naiditsch, Jan Gustafsson , Jan Nepomnjaschtschi and Loek van Wely played . The tournament took place from June 28th to July 6th. Lékó won with 4.5 points from 7 games, while Kramnik achieved an unusually bad result with 3 points.
In 2009 the tournament took place from July 2nd to July 12th. Kramnik, Lékó, Carlsen, Dmitri Jakowenko , Étienne Bacrot and Naiditsch were invited . It won Wladimir Kramnik with 6.5 points from 10 games ahead of Carlsen, Lékó and Jakowenko with 5.5 points each. It was Kramnik's ninth tournament win in Dortmund.
2010 was played from July 15th to 25th in the Dortmund city theater. Participants were Kramnik, Məmmədyarov, Ruslan Ponomarjow , Lékó, Naiditsch and Lê Quang Liêm . The Elo average was 2734. Ponomarjow won with 6.5 points ahead of Lê Quang (5.5), Kramnik and Məmmədyarov (both 5). For the first time, the “ Sofia rule ” applied, which forbade players to offer draws to their opponents.
In 2011 the tournament took place from July 21st to 31st. Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura , Ponomarjow, Anish Giri , Lê Quang Liêm and Georg Meier were invited . Kramnik dominated the tournament and won despite a loss in the last round against fifth-placed Nakamura 1.5 points ahead of Lê Quang, who remained undefeated and got 5.5 points. It was Kramnik's tenth tournament victory in Dortmund.
In 2012 the tournament took place from July 13th to 22nd. Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana , Sergei Karjakin , Ponomarjow, Lékó, Naiditsch, Mateusz Bartel , Daniel Fridman , Meier and Gustafsson were invited . Caruana won it with 6 points thanks to a better score ahead of Karjakin with the same number of points.
2013 played from July 26th to August 4th: Kramnik, Caruana, Lékó, Wang Hao , Michael Adams , Dmitri Andreikin , Naiditsch, Meier, Fridman and Igor Khenkin . Adams won with 7 out of 9 points and a performance of 2923 Elo.
In 2014 the tournament was held from July 12th to 20th. Kramnik, Lékó, Ponomarjow, Caruana, Adams, Naiditsch, Meier and David Baramidze played .
In 2015 the tournament took place from June 27th to July 5th. Participants were Caruana, Wesley So , Kramnik, Nepomnjaschtschi, Naiditsch, Hou Yifan , Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and Meier.
In 2016 the tournament took place from July 9th to 17th, 2016. Wladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave , Leinier Domínguez , Jewgeni Najer , Rainer Buhmann , Ruslan Ponomarjow and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu were invited.
In 2017 the tournament took place from July 15 to 23, 2017. Wladimir Kramnik, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Dmitri Andreikin, Radosław Wojtaszek , Wang Yue , Wladimir Fedossejew and Matthias Blübaum were invited .
In 2018, Wladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Jan Nepomnjaschtschi, Radosław Wojtaszek, Jan-Krzysztof Duda , Wladislaw Kowaljow, Georg Meier and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu played from July 14th to 22nd .
In 2019, Jan Nepomnjaschtschi, Radosław Wojtaszek, Wladislaw Kowaljow, Georg Meier, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Teimour Radjabov, Daniel Fridman, Leinier Domínguez Perez, Kaido Kulaots, Richard Rapport played from July 13 to 21.
In 2020 there should not be a closed grandmaster tournament, but a chess festival under one roof from July 15 to 19: three Open for different levels of ability. The organizer has been the Dortmund association "Initiative Pro Schach eV" since 2020, which wanted to host the event again in the Westfalenhallen Dortmund after 18 years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , the tournament was postponed to July 14-21 , 2021.
Special events
Blitz chess tournaments were held on days off . Blitz games (5 minutes versus 2 minutes) were later played against participating grandmasters. As a result, autograph hours were introduced. In 2017, a simultaneous game by the educational initiative Schach für Kids e. V. (SfK) with Wladimir Kramnik.
Wladimir Kramnik , 2017 in the Möhrenbande kindergarten
Autograph hour in the customer center of the Sparkasse Dortmund am Freistuhl
Autograph hour 2019
Autographs on numbered event posters
Tournament Directors
In 1983 Jürgen Grastat became tournament director; In 2001 Stefan Koth joined. From 2003 onwards, Koth conducted the contract negotiations with the grandmasters alone. 2020 the tournament director is Andreas Jagodzinsky.
Event manager
Gerd Kolbe, former head of the press office and spokesman for the city of Dortmund, part-time press spokesman for Borussia Dortmund from 1976 to 1981 , has been the event manager since 1993. From 2020 Carsten Hensel will take over the position of event manager. From 1991 to 2002, Hensel was the press spokesman for the chess days and also long-time manager of the 14th world chess champion Wladimir Kramnik and the Hungarian top player Péter Lékó.
referee
The referees since 2002 are Andrzej Filipowicz and Alexander Bach.
Commentators
Until 1993 the games were explained on demo boards. From 1994, when the tournament was held in the Schauspielhaus, the games were commented live on headphones by Helmut Pfleger. From 1997 Klaus Bischoff was hired as a co-commentator. From 2009, Bischoff and Sebastian Siebrecht commented on the tournament. Melanie Lubbe and Elisabeth Pähtz have been co-commentators since 2018 .
Claus Spahn and Helmut Pfleger recording a television broadcast in 1997
Elisabeth Pähtz and Klaus Bischoff in the commentary booth 2018
Elisabeth Pähtz 2018 in Dortmund
transmission
Since 2015, all games have been broadcast live on Chess24.com and can also be commented on there.
winner
Rating
The games are rated according to the Sonneborn-Berger system .
Preliminary tournaments
- 1928 Fritz Sämisch
- 1951 Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
- 1961 Mark Taimanow
Chess Days since 1973
Heikki Westerinen, winner 1973 and 1975
Vlastimil Hort, winner 1982
Wladimir Kramnik, winner 1995–1998, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011
Péter Lékó, winner in 1999, 2002 and 2008
2000: Sparkasse director Helmut Kohls, Jozsef Pinter
Award ceremony in Dortmund 2000
Award ceremony in Dortmund 2002
Ruslan Ponomarev, winner 2010
Fabiano Caruana, winner 2012, 2014 and 2015
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, 2016 winner
Radoslaw Wojtaszek, winner 2017
Jan Nepomnyashchi, winner 2018
Leinier Domínguez, winner 2019
literature
- Jerzy Konikowski together with Pit Schulenburg and Gerd Treppner: The Grand Master Tournament Dortmund 1992 , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Hollfeld 1992, ISBN 3-88805-119-3 .
- Jerzy Konikowski together with Dagobert Kohlmeyer and Andreas Krois: The 23rd International Dortmund Chess Days , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Hollfeld 1995, ISBN 3-88805-250-5 .
- Jerzy Konikowski together with Dagobert Kohlmeyer and Andreas Krois: The 24th International Dortmund Chess Days , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Hollfeld 1996, ISBN 3-88805-295-5 .
- Jerzy Konikowski together with Andreas Krois and Gerd Treppner: The 25th International Dortmund Chess Days , Joachim Beyer Verlag, Hollfeld 1998, ISBN 3-88805-296-3 .
- Dortmund Chess Days 1996 . SCHACH 1996, Issue 8, pp. 27 to 39.
- Dortmund Chess Days 1998 . SCHACH 1998, issue 8, pp. 4 to 31.
- Dortmund Chess Days 1999 . SCHACH 1999, issue 8, pp. 30 to 42.
Web links
- Sparkassen Chess Trophy
- Jan van Reek: Dortmund Chess Days (English)
- An overview of all Dortmund Chess Days since 1973 with tables, reports and photos on TeleSchess
- Award ceremony 2004 in the town hall of Dortmund ( WMV ; 10.9 MB) a video by Gerhard Hund
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Langrock: From Heikki Westerinen to Peter Leko. A brief history of the Dortmund chess days . In: KARL - the cultural chess magazine , year 2003, issue 2.
- ↑ Overview of all Dortmund Chess Days since 1973
- ↑ 2nd International German Individual Chess Championship 1973 in Dortmund on TeleSchach
- ↑ Press release of the city of Dortmund on the history of the Dortmund Chess Days 1973, which Westerinen won. ( Memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 1973 with documents and pictures from 1973
- ↑ Dortmund Chess Meeting 2000 on TeleSchach (tables, images, press releases and games)
- ↑ Peter Leko wins the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2008 ( Memento from July 26th 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Kramnik top seed in Dortmund again , Chessvibes.com, April 19, 2010.
- ↑ Ten players to compete in Dortmund's 40th tournament , Chessvibes.com, April 27, 2012 (English)
- ↑ Dortmund starts today . Chessvibes.com, July 26, 2013 (English)
- ↑ Dortmund Field Announced, Pairings Ready , Chessvibes.com, May 29, 2014
- ↑ International Dortmund Chess Days return to the Westfalenhallen , Chessbase, January 31, 2020.
- ↑ 48th International Dortmund Chess Days postponed , Chessbase, April 30, 2020
- ↑ Local time from Dortmund , accessed on July 22, 2018.
- ↑ Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting , accessed on July 21, 2019.
- ^ Smbat Lputjan winner in Dortmund . Schach-Echo 1988, Issue 5, pp. 178 to 181 (photos, report, cross table, games).
- ↑ Klaus Besenthal: Leinier Dominguez wins in Dortmund. In: de.chessbase.com. July 21, 2019, accessed July 21, 2019.