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Interview with Vishy Anand

ThumbnailAnand15th World Chess Champion looks ahead to the NC World Masters

The time has come: Viswanathan Anand will play the first match in chess without castling in the duel of the world champions against Vladimir Kramnik in the Westfalenhallen Dortmund. After Vladimir Kramnik had already talked about the special features of the "No Castling" chess variation in an exclusive interview, Anand was now the guest and looked ahead to the big match. He also talks about his current projects in the pandemic and explains the personal significance that both Dortmund and Germany in general have for him. Have fun!

Interview on YouTube

No Castling Chess against Shredder

Test chess without castling against our tournament engine

As a nineteen-time world champion, the Shredder chess programme will be our tournament engine for the Deutschland Grand Prix. Now everyone can already try himselfe against Shredder in the new "No Castling Chess" on our homepage. Users can try themselves against Shredder on three different levels and thus perfectly prepare for the Sparkassen Online Open. Just try it out here: 
https://sparkassen-chess-trophy.de/de/infos/spielen-gegen-shredder.html

Announcement for the Online Open

Dortmunder Sparkassen Online Open 2021

"We are pleased to give the international chess community an opportunity to try out the chess variant No Castling Chess within the framework of the Dortmunder Sparkassen Online Open. Just like the NC World Masters between Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand, the Open will take place in this format, so we expect trend-setting insights for the chess world and give everyone the chance to try it out here. Attractive prizes await the winners of the tournaments," says tournament director Andreas Jagodzinsky. 

Pre-registration is easy by entering your name, nationality, club and year of birth in the team on lichess: https://lichess.org/team/sparkassen-chess-trophy-dortmund-2021.

You can find the complete announcement here: Sparkassen Online Open - Sparkassen Chess Trophy 2021 (sparkassen-chess-trophy.de)

"Childhood dream for me to play in Dortmund one day"

Georg Meier minNational player Georg Meier confirmed as fourth German participant

The field of participants for the "Deutschland Grand Prix" continues to take shape: The next long-standing German national player has been confirmed in Georg Meier and will be sitting at the board in Dortmund in July! He has already proven himself in the grandmaster tournaments of the Dortmund Chess Days in his six participations between 2011 and 2018 and is now looking forward to the new format.

He was part of the victorious German team at the 2011 European Championship, playing on the second board and winning the decisive game in the last round against Sergej Movsesjan. He has also been a regular player in the Schachbundesliga for years, since 2017 for SF Deizisau. We are looking forward to his games in the strong Germany Grand Prix and spoke to him briefly in the run-up to it:

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