In Dortmund!
After a week of 'regular holiday' in Berlin I have now arrived at the new location of the grand tour: Dortmund. Here, within a few moments, the Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2007 will start, the next super tournament on the calendar after Wijk aan Zee, Morelia/Linares and Sofia. The participants are world champion Kramnik (yes, he plays!), Boris Gelfand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Magnus Carlsen, Peter Leko, Arkadij Naiditsch, Evgeny Alekseev (who qualified at the Aeroflot Open) and Viswanathan Anand.For now I start with a small pictorial report. Very soon there will be videos, of course!
Dortmund Hauptbahnhof
The huge Sparkasse building opposed to the train station
As said before, you have to be a bit crazy
Some window shopping
The main sponsor of the tournament
The playing venue: the Dortmund Theater
The tournament hasn't started yet...
...but the book selling has!
Famous chess commentator Helmut Pfleger, second from the left
Kramnik-Anand
Carlsen-Leko
Mamedyarov-Naiditsch
Gelfand-Alekseev
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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