Starting the German Individual Championships as the favourite and always leading, she made it close in the end, but won the title in the rapid tiebreak: Dinara Wagner is German Champion 2025 and will travel to Dortmund in August with the title in her luggage!

Oleg Romanishin, a chess legend from Ukraine, will be taking part in the 52nd International Dortmund Chess Days in August 2025. His return to Dortmund is a special one: Almost half a century has passed since he won the tournament in 1976.

The Sparkassen Chess Trophy is providing further new incentives for ambitious chess players: the top three finishers in the B-Open 2025 will receive an exclusive invitation to take part in the A-Open of theInternational Dortmund Chess Days 2026 free of charge. This innovation underlines the organiser's commitment to promoting talented players and enabling them to progress to higher performance categories.

He already took part in the A-Open of the Sparkassen Chess Trophy last year and will be travelling to Dortmund again in August 2025. GM David Gavrilescu, 22-year-old national player from Romania and currently at the peak of his career.