The Open tournaments of the Sparkassen Chess Trophy 2025 are (almost) fully booked 2 weeks before the start of the tournament.
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The Sparkassen Chess Trophy 2025 promises to be a real chess festival - and the open B-Open for players up to 2050 TWZ is a highlight! With attractive prize money of €850 for the tournament winner, chess legend GM Artur Yusupov up close and personal and exciting special offers, the event sets new standards.

The Indian chess grandmaster Divya Deshmukh, winner of the Chess Olympiad with the women's team (2024 in Budapest), will compete in the A-Open of the Sparkassen Chess Trophy 2025 in Dortmund. Deshmukh, born in Nagpur in 2005, has held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) since 2021 and International Master (IM) since 2023.

Dortmund, 1 July 2025 - As part of the International Dortmund Chess Days, the German Football Museum is presenting the spectacular blitz chess festival ‘Women Playmakers on the Chessboard’ on Tuesday, 5 August. The four participants in the International Women's Tournament - live, exciting and prominent right in the heart of German football.