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. Chess is an abstract strategy board game and mental sport for two players. ... Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. ... The Corus chess tournament takes place every year, usually in January, in a small town called Wijk aan Zee, part of the larger Beverwijkin the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. ... The annual Linares chess tournament takes its name from the city of Linares in the Jaén province of Andalusia, Spain in which it is held. ... Vladimir Kramnik at the 2005 Corus chess tournament. ...

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. For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ...

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. A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a type of group tournament in which each participant plays every other participant an equal number of times. ... Péter Lékó Péter Lékó (b. ... Veselin Topalov Veselin Topalov (Bulgarian: ; born Ruse, Bulgaria, March 15, 1975) is a Bulgarian chess player. ...

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

Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров. IPA: ; (born April 13, 1963) is a chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. ... Vassily Ivanchuk (Васи́лий Ива́нчук), born March 18, 1969 in Berejiany, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. ... Anatoli Yevgenyevich Karpov (Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов) (born May 23, 1951) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. ... Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan Anand (IPA: ) (born December 11, 1969 in Chennai (then called Madras), India) is an Indian chess grandmaster. ... Michael Adams Michael Adams who was born on October 17, 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England is an International Grandmaster of chess. ... Peter Svidler Peter Svidler (Пётр Свидлер; Pyotr Svidler, born June 17, 1976 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess grandmaster. ... Arkadij Naiditsch (b. ...

External links

• DORTMUND SPARKASSEN CHESS MEETING 2005
• The Games of Dortmund Sparkassen 2005