Back in Dortmund
ChessVibes is back in Dortmund. Due to some delay I arrived just ten minutes before the start of round five; just in time to start the camera(s).Just like last year, I'll be covering the Sparkassen Chess Meeting from Dortmund, Germany. I've already uploaded some photos.
The entrance of the Schauspielhaus (Civic Theater) in rainy Dortmund
The stage of the theater with the 
Shakhryiar Mamedyarov and Vladimir Kramnik, waiting for the round to start
Loek van Wely and Jan Gustafsson doing the same. The Dutchman will sacrifice three pawns today.
Peter Leko and Ian Nepomniachtchi are also about to make their first moves.
Vassily Ivanchuk and Arkadij Naiditsch have begun, and so have the others, and so has the fifth round.Stay tuned for on-the-spot (video) coverage!
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
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