Caruana Wins Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2012

22 July 2012, Kuala Lumpur – At the end of the ninth round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, Fabiano Caruana emerged as the Champion after beating Mateusz Bartel of Poland. Caruana scored 6.0 points.

In second place was Sergey Karjakin of Russia with 6.0 points also but a lower tie-break points. Karjakin beat Gustafsson of Germany.

Final Round Results (round 9):

Official website: http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2012/tabelle.html

(Photos from official website, Georgios Souleidis)

Kramnik vs Meier, Round 9, Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2012

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22 July 2012, Kuala Lumpur – Here is the live round 9 game between Vladimir Kramnik, Russia and G Meier of Germany in the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2012, Germany.

    

Standings after the 8th round indicate that Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine is leading with 5.0 points, though four others comprising of Naiditsch, Karjakin, Caruana and Leko are also at 5.0 points. Tight race and tight finish. Kramnik is in sixth place with 4.5 points.

Official website: http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2012/spielplan.html

(source: Susan Polgar’s Daily Chess News blog)

Dortmund Sparkassen 2012, Kramnik Joint Leads!

15 July 2012, Kuala Lumpur – Ten players are participating in this year’s 2012 Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Dortmund, Germany and published on fide.com. Top on the list is Vladimir Kramnik with Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana, Peter Leko, Ruslan Ponomariov, Mateusz Bartel and four other German players.

After round 2 of the tournament, Kramnik is in the lead with 3 other players with 1.5 points.

Standings After Round 2:

Round 2 Results:

Here is the round 2 game between Jan Gustafsson and Vladimir Kramnik where Kramnik played King’s Indian Defence as black and won.

 

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Official website: http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2012/spielplan.html

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(Photo: Georgios Souleidis)

Karjakin vs Kramnik, Dortmund Chess 2012

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13 July 2012, Kuala Lumpur - Chess.com reported that 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 round 1 game between Sergey Karjakin and Vladimir Kramnik is shown live on chessdom.com or above game.

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