Dortmund 2012 Tournament

The 40th edition of the Dortmund Sparkassen chess meeting which takes place from 13-22 July in Germany.

The modern Dortmund tournament has been held annually since 1973, and over the past decade it has been dominated by Vladimir Kramnik, who in 2011 achieved his 10th title!

The format for the 2012 competition is different to recent years.  Instead of a 6-player double round-robin it will be a 10-player single round-robin, headed by Kramnik in search of an 11th title.

The four extra players are the gold medal-winning German team from the 2011 European Team Championships: Arkadij Naiditsch, Daniel Fridman, Georg Meier and Jan Gustafsson.

The rounds start each day at 15:00 local time (13:00 UTC), except the last round which starts 2 hours earlier.  There is one rest day on the 18th July.

The time control is 40 moves in 100 minutes, then 20 moves in 50 minutes, and then 15 minutes to finish with a 30 second increment from the start of the game.

Live game link here.

The full 2012 line-up looks like this:

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Full list of past winners (via Wikipedia)