Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting

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The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting is an elite chess tournament held every summer in Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is an invite-only event, with the exception that one slot at Dortmund is awarded to the winner of the annual Aeroflot Open in Moscow.

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.

List of winners

# Year Winner
(1) 1928 Germany Fritz Sämisch
(2) 1951 Belgium Albéric O'Kelly de Galway
(3) 1961 Soviet UnionMark Taimanov
1 1973 Finland Heikki Westerinen
2 1974 Hungary László Szabó
3 1975 Finland Heikki Westerinen
4 1976 Soviet Union Oleg Romanishin
5 1977 Czech Republic Jan Smejkal
6 1978 Sweden Ulf Andersson
7 1979 Soviet Union Tamaz Giorgadze
8 1980 England Raymond Keene
9 1981 Soviet Union Gennady Kuzmin
10 1982 Czech Republic Vlastimil Hort
11 1983 Romania Mihai Suba
12 1984 Israel Yehuda Gruenfeld
13 1985 Soviet Union Yuri Razuvayev
14 1986 Hungary Zoltán Ribli
15 1987 Soviet Union Yuri Balashov
16 1988 Soviet Union Smbat Lputian
17 1989 Soviet Union Efim Geller
18 1990 Soviet Union Alexander Chernin
19 1991 Czech Republic Igor Štohl
20 1992 Russia Garry Kasparov
21 1993 Russia Anatoly Karpov
22 1994 Netherlands Jeroen Piket
23 1995 Russia Vladimir Kramnik
24 1996 Russia Vladimir Kramnik and India Viswanathan Anand
25 1997 Russia Vladimir Kramnik
26 1998 Russia Vladimir Kramnik, England Michael Adams and Russia Peter Svidler
27 1999 Hungary Péter Lékó
28 2000 Russia Vladimir Kramnik and India Viswanathan Anand
29 2001 Russia Vladimir Kramnik and Bulgaria Veselin Topalov
30 2002 Hungary Péter Lékó
31 2003 Moldova Viktor Bologan
32 2004 India Viswanathan Anand
33 2005 Germany Arkadij Naiditsch
34 2006 Russia Vladimir Kramnik and Russia Peter Svidler
35 2007 Russia Vladimir Kramnik
36 2008 Hungary Péter Lékó
37 2009 Russia Vladimir Kramnik
38 2010 Ukraine Ruslan Ponomariov
39 2011 Russia Vladimir Kramnik
40 2012 Italy Fabiano Caruana and Russia Sergey Karjakin
41 2013 England Michael Adams
42 2014 Italy Fabiano Caruana
43 2015 United States Fabiano Caruana

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