Friday, June 27, 2008

Dortmund 2008 starts tomorrow


Dortmund, Germany


Category 18 Super Grandmaster tournament, The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting starts tomorrow June28 in the German city of Dortmund. It is one of the three "majors" on the chess tournament circuit along with Corus and Linares.

Dortmund is an invite-only event, and only the strongest grandmasters are invited. This year the average rating of the participants is 2695.

Participants

Player
Age
Nat.
Elo
Rank
Vladimir Kramnik
32
RUS
2788
2
Shakhriyar Mamedjarov
22
AZE
2752
7
Peter Leko
28
HUN
2741
10
Vassily Ivanchuk
39
UKR
2740
11
Loek van Wely
35
NED
2676
45
Ian Nepomniachtchi
17
RUS
2634
86
Arkadij Naiditsch
22
GER
2624

Jan Gustafsson
28
GER
2603


The tournament official website

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