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.
Chess Meeting 2011
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,[1] the local public savings bank.
1990s
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1990
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1991
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1992
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1993
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1994
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22nd Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, SuperGM group, 15–24 July 1994, Dortmund , Cat. XVI (2640)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
SB
TPR
1
Jeroen Piket (Netherlands )
2640
½
1
½
1
1
½
½
1
½
6½
2806
2
Michael Adams (England )
2640
½
Does not appear
½
0
0
1
1
½
1
1
5½
2720
3
Vladimir Epishin (Russia )
2650
0
½
Does not appear
1
½
½
½
1
½
½
5
2682
4
Artur Yusupov (Germany )
2655
½
1
0
Does not appear
½
½
½
0
1
½
4½
20.00
2638
5
Alexey Dreev (Russia )
2650
0
1
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
0
1
4½
19.75
2639
6
Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland )
2615
0
0
½
½
½
Does not appear
1
1
0
1
4½
18.50
2643
7
Anatoly Karpov (Russia )
2780
½
0
½
½
½
0
Does not appear
½
1
1
4½
18.25
2624
8
Jan Timman (Netherlands )
2635
½
½
0
1
½
0
½
Does not appear
½
½
4
2598
9
Christopher Lutz (Germany )
2580
0
0
½
0
1
1
0
½
Does not appear
0
3
13.50
2522
10
Peter Leko (Hungary )
2555
½
0
½
½
0
0
0
½
1
Does not appear
3
13.00
2524
1995
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23rd Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, SuperGM group, 14–23 July 1995, Dortmund , Cat. XVII (2666)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
SB
TPR
1
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia )
2730
½
½
1
½
1
1
½
1
1
7
2877
2
Anatoly Karpov (Russia )
2775
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
½
½
1
1
1
6½
2818
3
Peter Leko (Hungary )
2605
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
½
1
0
1
5
21.00
2714
4
Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine )
2740
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
1
1
½
5
20.00
2699
5
Joël Lautier (France )
2645
½
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
1
½
1
0
4½
2668
6
Nigel Short (England )
2645
0
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
0
1
½
4
17.00
2624
7
Jeroen Piket (Netherlands )
2625
0
½
½
½
0
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
4
15.75
2626
8
Evgeny Bareev (Russia )
2650
½
0
0
0
½
1
½
Does not appear
0
1
3½
13.75
2586
9
Alexander Beliavsky (Ukraine )
2650
0
0
1
0
0
0
½
1
Does not appear
1
3½
12.50
2586
10
Eric Lobron (Germany )
2595
0
0
0
½
1
½
0
0
0
Does not appear
2
2452
1996
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24th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, SuperGM group, 5–14 July 1996, Dortmund , Cat. XVIII (2676)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
SB
TPR
1
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia )
2765
½
½
1
1
1
½
1
1
½
7
28.50
2886
2
Viswanathan Anand (India )
2735
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
½
1
1
1
1
7
27.25
2889
3
Boris Gelfand (Belarus )
2665
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
½
½
1
1
6
2802
4
Michael Adams (England )
2685
0
½
½
Does not appear
0
½
1
½
½
1
4½
17.50
2675
5
Judit Polgár (Hungary )
2665
0
0
½
1
Does not appear
½
1
0
1
½
4½
17.00
2677
6
Alexei Shirov (Spain )
2685
0
½
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
1
0
1
4
15.50
2632
7
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria )
2750
½
0
½
0
0
½
Does not appear
½
1
1
4
14.75
2624
8
Robert Hübner (Germany )
2595
0
0
½
½
1
0
½
Does not appear
½
½
3½
2605
9
Eric Lobron (Germany )
2585
0
0
0
½
0
1
0
½
Does not appear
½
2½
2520
10
Peter Leko (Hungary )
2630
½
0
0
0
½
0
0
½
½
Does not appear
2
2461
1997
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25th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, SuperGM group, 4–13 July 1997, Dortmund , Cat. XVIII (2700)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
TPR
Place
1
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia )
2770
½
½
1
1
½
1
½
½
1
6½
2857
1
2
Viswanathan Anand (India )
2765
½
Does not appear
0
1
½
½
½
1
½
1
5½
2772
2
3
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria )
2745
½
1
Does not appear
½
0
½
½
½
½
1
5
2737
3–4
4
Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine )
2725
0
0
½
Does not appear
½
1
½
1
1
½
5
2739
3–4
5
Judit Polgár (Hungary )
2670
0
½
1
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
½
0
4½
2702
5
6
Boris Gelfand (Belarus )
2695
½
½
½
0
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
½
4
2657
6–8
7
Anatoly Karpov (Russia )
2745
0
½
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
0
½
1
4
2651
6–8
8
Nigel Short (England )
2660
½
0
½
0
0
½
1
Does not appear
1
½
4
2660
6–8
9
Robert Hübner (Germany )
2580
½
½
½
0
½
½
½
0
Does not appear
½
3½
2632
9
10
Artur Yusupov (Germany )
2640
0
0
0
½
1
½
0
½
½
Does not appear
3
2581
10
GM Romuald Mainka won Open A tournament with the result 7½ out of 9.
1998
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26th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, SuperGM group, 26 June – 5 July 1998, Dortmund , Cat. XVIII (2699)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
SB
TPR
1
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia )
2790
½
1
½
½
½
1
½
½
1
6
25.75
2813
2
Michael Adams (England )
2670
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
1
½
1
1
½
6
25.00
2827
3
Peter Svidler (Russia )
2690
0
½
Does not appear
1
1
½
½
1
½
1
6
24.50
2825
4
Peter Leko (Hungary )
2670
½
½
0
Does not appear
½
½
1
½
½
1
5
2745
5
Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine )
2740
½
½
0
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
½
1
4½
2694
6
Viswanathan Anand (India )
2770
½
0
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
½
4
17.50
2648
7
Artur Yusupov (Germany )
2630
0
½
½
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
1
½
4
16.50
2663
8
Zoltán Almási (Hungary )
2630
½
0
0
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
1
½
4
16.00
2663
9
Alexander Beliavsky (Slovenia )
2690
½
0
½
½
½
½
0
0
Does not appear
½
3
2575
10
Alexei Shirov (Spain )
2710
0
½
0
0
0
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
2½
2531
1999
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27th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, Masters Event, 9–17 July 1999, Dortmund , Germany , Category X (2482)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
TPR
1
GM Eckhard Schmittdiel (Germany )
2505
Does not appear
½
1
½
½
0
½
1
1
1
6
2604
2
GM Zoltán Varga (Hungary )
2541
½
Does not appear
0
½
½
1
½
1
1
1
6
2600
3
IM Michael Feygin (Ukraine )
2500
0
1
Does not appear
½
½
½
1
0
½
1
5
2523
4
GM Arshak Petrosian (Armenia )
2514
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
½
½
1
5
2521
5
GM Klaus Bischoff (Germany )
2509
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
½
0
4½
2479
6
GM Adrian Mikhalchishin (Slovenia )
2552
1
0
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
0
4
2431
7
IM Alisa Marić (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia )
2489
½
½
0
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
4
2438
8
FM Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany )
2417
0
0
1
½
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
1
4
2446
9
IM Dirk Poldauf (Germany )
2453
0
0
½
½
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
1
4
2442
10
Gregor Mainka (Germany )
2340
0
0
0
0
1
1
½
0
0
Does not appear
2½
2331
17-year-old Olaf Wegener won Open A Swiss-system tournament with the score 8/10.
2000s
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2000
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28th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 7 – 16, 2000)[2]
28th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, SuperGM group, 7–16 July 2000, Dortmund , Category XIX (2702)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
SB
TPR
1
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia )
2770
1
0
½
1
1
½
½
½
1
6
25.75
2789
2
Viswanathan Anand (India )
2762
0
Does not appear
1
½
½
½
1
½
1
1
6
23.75
2836
3
Michael Adams (England )
2755
1
0
Does not appear
½
½
½
½
½
1
½
5
21.75
2739
4
Peter Leko (Hungary )
2743
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
0
½
1
½
1
5
20.75
2792
5
Vladimir Akopian (Armenia )
2660
0
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
1
½
5
20.75
2750
6
Deep Junior 6 (Israel )
Does not appear
0
½
½
1
½
Does not appear
½
½
0
1
4½
2702
7
Alexander Khalifman (Russia )
2667
½
0
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
4
17.50
2664
8
Evgeny Bareev (Russia )
2702
½
½
½
0
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
1
4
16.50
2659
9
Jeroen Piket (Netherlands )
2649
½
0
0
½
0
1
½
½
Does not appear
½
3½
2568
10
Robert Hübner (Germany )
2615
0
0
½
0
½
0
½
0
½
Does not appear
2
2520
28th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, GM group, 7–16 July 2000, Dortmund , Category IX (2456)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
TPR
1
GM Eckhard Schmittdiel (Germany )
2490
Does not appear
0
1
½
½
1
½
½
1
1
6
2577
2
IM Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany )
2442
1
Does not appear
1
½
½
½
½
½
1
0
5½
2538
3
GM Zoltán Varga (Hungary )
2530
0
0
Does not appear
1
1
1
½
½
1
½
5½
2528
4
GM Arshak Petrosian (Armenia )
2476
½
½
0
Does not appear
½
½
1
1
½
1
5½
2534
5
GM Adrian Mikhalchishin (Slovenia )
2552
½
½
0
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
½
1
5
2488
6
FM Fabian Döttling (Germany )
2477
0
½
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
1
1
1
5
2497
7
IM Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (Germany )
2437
½
½
½
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
0
1
4
2415
8
IM Almira Skripchenko-Lautier (Moldova )
2444
½
½
½
0
0
0
½
Does not appear
½
1
3½
2377
9
FM Olaf Wegener (Germany )
2359
0
0
0
½
½
0
1
½
Does not appear
0
2½
2301
10
Gregor Mainka (Germany )
2357
0
1
½
0
0
0
0
0
1
Does not appear
2½
2301
2001
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29th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 12 – 22, 2001)[3]
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
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30th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 6 – 21, 2002)[4]
Candidates Tournament
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The main event was a Candidates Tournament to determine a challenger for Vladimir Kramnik 's Einstein Group World Chess title.
Side events
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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
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31st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 31 – August 10, 2003)[6]
GM Victor Bologan qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2003.
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
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32nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 22 – August 1, 2004)[7]
GM Sergei Rublevsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2004.
Preliminaries
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Knockout
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2005
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33rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 8 – 17, 2005)
GM Emil Sutovsky qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2005.
2006
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34th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 29 – August 6, 2006)
GM Baadur Jobava qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2006.
2007
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35th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 23 – July 1, 2007)
GM Evgeny Alekseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2007.
2008
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36th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 28 – July 6, 2008)
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2008.
2009
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37th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 2 – 12, 2009)
GM Étienne Bacrot qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2009.
2010s
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2010
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38th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 15–25, 2010)
GM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2010.
2011
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39th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 21 – 31, 2011)
GM Lê Quang Liêm qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2011.
2012
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40th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 13 – 22, 2012)
GM Mateusz Bartel qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2012.
40th Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, 13–22 July 2012, Dortmund , Germany , Category XIX (2711)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
Black
Wins
SB
TPR
1
Fabiano Caruana (Italy )
2775
½
0
1
½
½
½
1
1
1
6
4
4
23.00
2829
2
Sergey Karjakin (Russia )
2779
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
½
½
1
1
1
6
4
3
23.00
2829
3
Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine )
2726
1
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
1
½
0
1
5½
5
3
24.50
2789
4
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia )
2799
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
½
1
1
5
5
3
20.50
2744
5
Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany )
2700
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
½
1
1
5
5
2
21.50
2755
6
Peter Leko (Hungary )
2730
½
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
1
1
5
4
2
21.50
2752
7
Georg Meier (Germany )
2644
½
½
0
0
½
½
Does not appear
½
1
½
4
4
1
16.00
2676
8
Daniel Fridman (Germany )
2655
0
0
½
½
½
½
½
Does not appear
½
½
3½
4
0
14.75
2637
9
Mateusz Bartel (Poland )
2674
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
½
Does not appear
½
2
5
1
8.00
2495
10
Jan Gustafsson (Germany )
2629
0
0
0
0
0
0
½
½
½
Does not appear
1½
5
0
4.75
2447
2013
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41st Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 26 – August 4, 2013)
41st Sparkassen Chess-Meeting, 26 July – 4 August 2013, Dortmund , Category XIX (2709)
Player
Rating
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Points
Wins
TPR
1
Michael Adams (England )
2740
½
½
1
1
½
1
1
1
½
7
5
2925
2
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia )
2784
½
Does not appear
1
½
0
1
1
1
½
1
6½
5
2866
3
Peter Leko (Hungary )
2737
½
0
Does not appear
1
½
½
½
½
½
½
4½
1
2705
4
Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany )
2710
0
½
0
Does not appear
1
0
½
1
1
½
4½
3
2708
5
Dmitry Andreikin (Russia )
2727
0
1
½
0
Does not appear
½
0
½
1
½
4
2
2664
6
Georg Meier (Germany )
2610
½
0
½
1
½
Does not appear
½
0
½
½
4
1
2677
7
Fabiano Caruana (Italy )
2796
0
0
½
½
1
½
Does not appear
0
½
1
4
2
2656
8
Wang Hao (China )
2752
0
0
½
0
½
1
1
Does not appear
0
1
4
3
2661
9
Igor Khenkin (Germany )
2605
0
½
½
0
0
½
½
1
Does not appear
½
3½
1
2640
10
Daniel Fridman (Germany )
2629
½
0
½
½
½
½
0
0
½
Does not appear
3
0
2592
2014
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42nd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 12 – 20, 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.
2015
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43rd Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (June 27 – July 5, 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.
2016
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44th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 9 – 17, 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.
2017
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45th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 15 – 23, 2017)
GM Vladimir Fedoseev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2017.
2018
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46th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 14 – 22, 2018)
GM Vladislav Kovalev qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2018.
2019
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47th Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting (July 13 – 21, 2019)
GM Kaido Külaots qualified as the winner of Aeroflot Open 2019.
FM Thomas Michalczak (2239 ) won Sparkassen Chess Meeting Open A swiss-system tournament with the score 7½/9 and performance rating 2533.